Set 4 of My
All Time Favorite Snow Photographs
Bob Jensen at
Trinity University
While much of the USA is experiencing springtime and singing birds
We still are getting cold weather and new snow
But it's like a lot of things in life
The longer you have to wait for something good the more you appreciate it when
it arrives at long last
This is a mountain lookout across the road from our cottage
It's not used a whole lot in the winter
There are three visible mountain ranges --- Kinsman Range, Twin Range, and
Presidential Range
This is Mt. Lafayette early in the season before the snows started down here in
front of our living room
If you look close in the picture below you can see a few wild cranberries not
yet eaten by the birds
The big green plant is inside the window
The three mountain tops below are called the Three Graces
But some people call them the canon balls south of Cannon Mountain
Making snow on one of Cannon Mountain's 60 ski trails
I have two snow throwing machines
The smaller machine below can be used when we have a light cover of less than
five inches or less
But it's so slow on my long drive that I only use it for touch up around the
mailbox after light snows
The ceaseless Sugar Hill road plows make piles around our mail box even if we
only get two inches of snow
Most of the time I use my tractor's snow thrower that can cut through five foot
drifts
I rarely am forced to use the front end loader for snow
One thing I like about a snow thrower is that it does not create
high banks alongside like a snow plow leaves
This is part of our driveway where I send blowing snow into oblivion
Note how different the above picture looks compared to prior years
When I had a friend plow my drive
And of course I have to use a shovel where the the machines won't work
Sometimes I must shovel gently just to find my mail boxes
I must keep a path shoveled so our propane delivery man can pull a hose to our
buried tank
We don't use our decks in the winter and route visitors to our garage entrance
to the cottage
But I must clear snow to under the back deck for our meter reader
High winds constantly fill in my shoveled path to the buried propane tank
This year the severe wind and snow weight took down a big pine tree in our woods
I think I will leave it for an animal shelter since small creatures live in big
dead trees
About three miles down our Sunset Hill
The Franconia Catholic Church is named Our Lady of
Snows
Birds have a hard time in the winter and get especially frustrated by
our late snows in April and May when they are very hungry and horny
When I think we've just got too much snow
I only have to look at the pictures below from Siberia
This made me think of Dr. Zhivvago
"Sharing Those Woods, Dark and Deep"
by H. William Rice
Chronicle of Higher Education's Chronicle Review, March 18, 2013
http://chronicle.com/article/Sharing-Those-Woods-Dark-and/137885/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en
The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep.
Other Snow Favorites
Set 01 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Snow/Set01/SnowFavoritesSet01.htm
Set 02 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Snow/Set02/SnowFavoritesSet02.htm
Set 03 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Snow/Set03/SnowSet03.htm
Also see --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2007/tidbits070409.htm
Also see --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2009/tidbits090210.htm
The Fascinating Science of Snow --- http://www.openculture.com/2012/12/the_fascinating_science_of_snow.html
Great Snow Picture Slide Show --- www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/SnowPictures.pps
A Train Ride for You --- http://www.openmyeyeslord.net/Train Ride.swf
My Theme Song for Life Slide Show ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AlaskaRailwayRoutes.pps
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
Blogs of White
Mountain Hikers (many great photographs) ---
http://www.blogger.com/profile/02242409292439585691
Especially note
the archive of John Compton's blogs at the bottom of the page at
http://1happyhiker.blogspot.com/
White Mountain News --- http://www.whitemtnews.com/
On May 14,
2006 I retired from
Trinity University after a long and
wonderful career as an accounting professor in four universities. I was
generously granted "Emeritus" status by the Trustees of Trinity University. My
wife and I now live in a cottage in the White Mountains of New Hampshire ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/NHcottage/NHcottage.htm
Bob
Jensen's Blogs ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
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Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
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http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Bob Jensen's past presentations and lectures
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations
Our
address is 190 Sunset Hill Road, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire
Our cottage was known as the Brayton Cottage in the early 1900s
Sunset Hill is a ridge overlooking with
New Hampshire's White Mountains to the East
and Vermont's
Green Mountains to the West
Bob Jensen's Threads --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
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