Daily Note
Every day, a photograph, a poem.
Two years ago on January 8th, 2022, I snapped this photo near Wilbur, WA of the shiny snow with shadows where the hills flow. Filter it brown, and it would look like Mars. Today, there would be some snow, but not in drifts and not deep because yesterday winter finally snowed steadily. Where we live, the snow is slush already due to the warm temperatures. If there’s no more snowfall, and the temperatures remain in the 40s, the snow that should look like above will be gone. This is what climate change looks like today.
Usually, I direct with links to NASA and climate change, but instead, I have resources for Washington State on Climate Change:
- Washington Department of Health: Climate Change
- Washington Department of Ecology
- US Department of Agriculture: Climate Change in the NorthWest
And, we’ll just enjoy this poem about winter fields of past snows…
Poetry
Winter Fields
Winter sun
Sheri Edwards
orange in the evening sky
hanging on to cloudy streams
shining on crystals of snow
where shadows hide in dips of loess,
sediment blown by wind
over glaciers of ancient times,
now fields of wheat,
dormant under the sparkling snow.
01.09.24 009.365.24
Poetry/Photography
Photo: January 8, 2022
Near Wilbur, Wa
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