Month: February 2011

Snow Around Carson

Winter finally paid a visit to Carson City. After six weeks of Spring time throughout January and February, Mother nature finally decided to wake up and dump some snow on us. And it was a good size dumping …

Pogonipply

The last time I wrote about pogonip, I got a correction that these ice crystals should more properly be considered a hoar frost, or rime frost. It is the fog itself that is pogonip, from the Shoshone phrase …

Jack Self Portraits

Jack learns how to use the remote trigger.

Balloon Over Carson

Seeing a tethered hot air balloon is kind of sad, like seeing a cheetah in a cage. It just wants to run free!

Carson Valley Eagles

February is the time for eagles in the Carson Valley. I found these two along Genoa Lane. One was guarding the nest, and the other was patrolling the area.