Flyover People Daily News

The crocus have been out for about 4 days. I just finally got around to photographing them.

seasons

Friday afternoon, I noticed that the daffodils on the south side of the house were breaking open.

nature, seasons

Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette:   WINTER, MAYBE We had been slipping through winter with the greatest of ease. This has not been a snow angel kind-of-a-year here in east-central Kansas. To get angel wings fluttering on the ground you need measurable snow, and in December and January that just [...]

columns, Flyover Weather, seasons

An inch of snow is our official total here. So far anyway. It’s still spitting out there, but I think that’s more of a freezing drizzle or freezing mist right now. We had enough snow to whiten the ground one day in November – a wet snow with huge flakes, but it was a warmish [...]

seasons, weather

Go back to sleep, daffodils, it’s only fake spring, not real spring. And, it’s a contraily kind of a day: 7 second video… Contrails. At 12:30 p.m., it’s 62 and mostly clear. Heading up to 69 today.    

nature, seasons, Uncategorized

It’s only 37 degrees outside, but in the warmth of the sun and wearing two long-sleeved shirts (me) and a fur coat (Zorro), we are delighting in this beautiful morning. The air is as still as a moment of silence and we feel like we’ve made it to spring without the reality of winter. But, [...]

catz, seasons

After a couple of rainy gray days, we have sunshine. The blizzard kept itself to the western half of the state and here we only had rain, about 2 inches of rain. Drought be gone. Maybe. Today, the sun hit the Tropic of Capricorn and is headed back north. Slowly. It’s the first day of [...]

Flyover Weather, seasons

Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette:   WINTER IS HERE When the seasons change hands, we always expect a few weeks of give and take before the new management gets things under control. I think we can say that management now has a firm grip. The new atmospheric format is in [...]

columns, Flyover Weather, seasons

Freshly-fallen leaves. This photo was taken on Thanksgiving Day and these leaves have probably faded to brown now.  Winter is upon us, and a winter storm is on its way. We may get only rain here, but snow is expected in other parts of Kansas this weekend.

Flyover Weather, seasons

Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: NOVEMBER WIND The wind was so strong that I expected to see a few stripes being yanked from Old Glory and watch them whip away into the atmosphere. Stretched to its limit, a flag held onto a residential pole for dear life as raging gusts [...]

columns, life on the ground, seasons, weather

Two Christmas trees at Town Crier bookstore are up and ready for you to help a local child. First, there’s the mitten tree and donations are being accepted for that – mittens, stocking caps, gloves, scarves. Donations will be distributed by the Salvation Army. The second tree is for CASA kids, kids who are in [...]

E-town, life on the ground, seasons