[at-l] Snow!!!

[RoksnRoots@aol.com (RoksnRoots@aol.com)]

In a message dated 1/3/02 8:22:13 AM Eastern Standard Time, ellen@clinic.net 
writes:


> There's ice on the marsh. All the ponds have ice fishermen and skaters. It's
> cold and windy. (predictions call for temperatures around 10 F tonight) but
> still no snow on the ground in my part of mid-coast Maine.
> 
> 
     *** We have our coldest night coming tonight on the tail of the southern 
snow. However, it was 64 last night and summery in my shorts and tee shirt. 
Tonight should be 40* but by saturday we'll be in the 70's again. 

    I have an amarilus blooming, and two orchids shooting spikes of exotic 
blooms. I'm proud of my oncidium orchid. It blooms once a year and thrived 
through the summer humidity. This year's spike has a hundred small bright 
yellow and brown tiger-striped blooms with a big bright yellow orchid bib; 
each about an inch big. The phalenopsis orchid is a delicate large white 
butterfly bloom with the weird snapdragon orchid center in white with red and 
yellow striping in the tendriled orchid matrix. Both of these are coming in 
fine in january on the back porch, though they'll have to come in tonight. 

    The rest of the area is green with lush subtropical vegetation and fauna. 
These plants are tuned to a long dry winter and go into a pseudo dormancy 
even though the temperatures are warm enough to grow. This is moisture 
induced not temperature. Whenever the sun is out at this latitude (26.5) it's 
warm. Yesterday I stared in the eyes of a big red-shouldered hawk perched on 
top of the mailbox post. They are habituated to people and live right in the 
neighborhood trees along with the ospreys. We're having a rare dry season 
rainy week and its showering outside as I write. Funny how 60 degrees feels 
cold after a tropical summer...  



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