Streets Covered With Snow

Friday night, it started snowing and ended yesterday.  About four inches had fallen.  It was enough for the streets to be plowed and the sidewalks to be shoveled.

Here are some general pictures of snowy streets.

Snowy Street in downtown Seattle  by, E Kaune

Oppenheim, Germany

Calgary, Alberta, Canada  by, Jesse Yardley

Veltesse, Bergano, Italy  by Lucifero4

Tomorrow, it is supposed to get to 50 degrees F and rain.

 

Some Rocks of Interest

If you’ve ever hear the phrase, you have rocks in your head, and as a matter of fact you do, I hope they are as nice as these.

Green Quartz  by, Aram Dulyan,  in case at National History Museum, London

Quartz from Brasil  by, Didier Descouens

Amethyst from Mexico,  by Didier Descouens

Quartz  by, Didier Descouens

Flintstone by, Andreas Trepte

Agate, banded  by, Adrian Pingstone

Red Rocks, Las Vegas  by Jon Sullivan

Compostelle  by, Didier Desouens

Lapis lazuli  by, Luna04

Winter Light

I wear sunglasses when I take my walks. This morning there was a sharp wind and the sun was bright. The brightness had a sharp edge to it that almost hurt my eyes.

I found some pictures of winter light.

Breaking the Cloud on Winter Day  by, Magnus Rosendahl

The Amazon and Nile Rivers

I came across a few wonderful pictures of the Nile and Amazon rivers.

I’ll start with the Amazon River. It is the largest river in the world.  It is in South America.

I have two maps for the Amazon River. The first map is of South America. The second map is of the Amazon River.

South America

Amazon River Map, by, K Messer

Here’s a part of the Amazon River.

Sun glint on Amazon River  by, NASA, Earth Observatory

Next up are two maps. The first is a map of Africa. The second map is of the Nile River.

Africa

Nile River Map  from, The Society for Archeological Sciences

A part of the Nile River

Nile River at Night  by, NASA, Earth Observatory, ISS Expedition 25 Crew

WordPress going dark on 1/18/12

I had a post ready to go for today. It wasn’t the dog ate my homework situation where I couldn’t post anything.

I am in agreement with WordPress as a matter of principle.

I wanted to let you know why I didn’t post, I couldn’t just not write anything.

 

Clover, red for crop cover and the others just to look at

Red Clover is used for cover crops in fields. It helps the soil. It keeps those pesky weeds from going all over the place. It is also pretty.  you can use it for gardens where you will plant vegetables as well.

Red Clover is planted in the autumn, about a month before frost. It is plowed under the ground about a month before planting.

Usually, the fields that have Red Clover are in areas that aren’t too cold in the winter, like the southern United States.

Red Clover by, Tony Willis, in New Zealand

Here are some pictures of clover that is nice to look at. There are about 300 kinds of clover, but I found pictures of a small number of them.

Clover, Spring  by, Kropsoq

Four Leaf Clover by, Cygnus921

Five Leaf Clover  I couldn’t find out who took this picture.

White Clover by, Sannse.  You see this clover on lawns.

Purple Prairie Clover by, Blaine Hansel

Trifolium Campestre, by Bernd Haynold

Haresfoot Clover by, Michael Becker

Zigzag Clover by, Christian Fischer

It’s cold out there, Solar System

Today has enough wind to be a tad cold outside.

It’s very cold in space. Here are some pictures of the solar system.

First, a map of the solar system. By, Chandra, Harvard.

The letters are a bit iffy, so I’ll write out the line up.

Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.

That orange thing below the planets and by the sun is a comet.

Mercury, by, NASA

Venus, by, NASA

Earth, by, NASA

Jupiter, by, NASA

Saturn, by, NASA

Uranus, with the dark spot st the right and in the middle, by, NASA

Neptune, by, NASA

Pluto with 3 satellites, by, Hubble Space Telescope

Oceans and Beaches

It is in the teens, sunny and quite windy. I was uncomfortable on my walk and from the expressions on other people’s faces, they were too.

I though a few pictures of oceans and beaches would be warming.

Sand Dollars on Seabed

Surfing at Ocean Beach by, Jon Sullivan

Waves at Ocean Beach by, Jon Sullivan

Shells, Clams on Beach by, Jon Sullivan

Driftwood by, Kecia O’Sullivan

Pebbles on the Beach by, Petr Kratochvil

Sea Shell on the Beach by, Petr Kratochvil

Mussel by, Yannik Volker, I’m missing the two dots over the o.

Sand Sculpture by, G. King, taken in Victoria Australia. It is around 10 feet high.

Seed Planters, Things of Beauty

After the ground has been harrowed, it is time to sow seeds. To plant seeds on a large scale, you need machines.

These pictures are of seed planters that are used in big fields. The first one is of crop rows.

You can see where the seeds would planted between the mounds of soil.

Sowing Machine made by Nordsten by, Mahlun

This tractor is a John Deere 8310 by Dirk.

This is a John Deere 1770NT30. I plants 16 rows of seeds at a time along with fertilizer.

This is another John Deere 1770NT20 planting corn. They also call corn maize.

John Deere DB120. This seed planter plants 48 rows at the same time. It can plant up to 75 acres in an hour.

Snow and Ice

West of here, there have been snow storms and very cold temperatures. I found some pictures of snow and ice.

Bird Tracks in Snow

Ice Crystals on Glass

Frozen Lake by, Mike Coates

Trees With Ice by, David Lombardo

US Coast Guard Ice Breaker Healy

Healy Escorts Tanker