Finding Ulysses

Water flowed into Trumansburg Creek for most of the day today from a big leak just outside the Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts.

photograph of snow in the trees in Trumansburg, February 2011

A video of a softly coating snow that came at the end of February 2010 with a general snowstorm hitting Trumansburg from the south.

Other photographs of our area can be found through the Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Just search for “Finger Lakes”.

A simple test video of riding a bicycle down a slushy Cayuga Street in the middle of the winter, with the snow piled high on either side.

People here in Ulysses who have been paying attention didn’t need a study by Elizabeth Burakowski to tell us that our winters are getting warmer. Still, thanks to her for doing the work to confirm our suspicions. Burakowski, a graduate student at University of New Hampshire’s Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, [...]

I have to admit that I caught snow fever tonight. After hearing the loud booms of the Winter Festival’s fireworks, the snow started coming down at a respectable pace, and I had visions of play. Sledding on Rice Hill with my kids tomorrow morning became a hope for me in the same way that I [...]

The footprints, walking, undisturbed in the street, are not mine. Where was this person walking to, at such an hour?

When it is 1:15 in the morning on January 5, and the temperature outside is 50 degrees, I am unnerved. I look at the radar maps, and see rain, not snow, and it’s coming from the southwest. I haven’t yet shoveled my driveway, and though I rarely look forward to that work, it doesn’t feel right to miss it.