Everyone who lives somewhere where it snows knows that there’s snow…and there’s
❄snow❄
Riley Mae tied some branches onto the bird feeder by the kitchen window; she set it up for photo opportunities, and it works perfectly because the birds will even come to the feeder while I’m sitting on the glider just a couple feet away from it. This is a little dark-eyed junco (left) and a house finch (right) a.k.a a Hollywood Finch
I think it’s pretty well-known that not all snow is created equal.
Sometimes little flakes fall from the sky that are so tiny that my family and I simply refer to them as “particles.” Other times it’s tiny needles, X’s, or balls of fluff. And still other times it’s the most perfect snowflakes you could ever imagine.
The latter was the kind of snowflakes we were blessed with on January 10th.
these perfect snowflakes just so happened to land on/by me, so just imagine all the other glorious shapes that were never seen that day!
Seeing clipart of snowflakes feels like looking at a Valentine’s heart: sure, it’s pretty, but it looks nothing like the real thing. But then it dawns on you, that that’s not true.
Snowflakes really can — and do — look like that.
How is that even possible?
a black-capped chickadee and a goldfinch (in its nonbreeding plumage!)
And apparently there’s a cheat sheet for types of common snowflakes, so I suggest that you take a good long look next time it snows.
⭐The More You Know⭐
I’m not considering it a “new year’s resolution,” but I do want to take more short video clips of life this year, because I love creating videos like this: sweet, aesthetic, and sometimes a bit melancholy
art by jordan rae 