It's Garbage Day.
44 degrees with off and on showers.
From YNN: "(Overnight) showers will taper by late Monday morning with partial clearing taking place by the afternoon. Temperatures will also dip off by the afternoon too.
High pressure will move in Monday night which will relax winds and clear skies. Tuesday will be a more typical January day with highs in the 30s. Temperatures will briefly spike into the upper 30s Wednesday before falling into the 20s for the end of the work week."
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Sunday Scenery
West Main Street never looks like this on a Sunday afternoon at any time of the year, but yesterday there was nary a bit of snow in sight nor a parking spot to be found, because so many people were gathering at Stinkers Tavern for the Swanberg Benefit.
Another unusual sight: nice green rows of Winter Wheat in a field next to Fuess-Cleary Road.
About a week ago this stone wall was buried in a snow drift and West Hill was white!
All of the ponds and brooks were full-to-the-brim.
The ice curtain in front of the caves in Forge Hollow was melting in such a manner as to make it appear to be suspended in space....
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IN THE MORNING MAIL
This amazing view of outer space!
From Jeff Reynolds: a spectacular photograph of the Pinwheel Galaxy - about 18 trillion miles from earth - taken right here in Waterville at the new Observatory at the Waterville Public Library.
"Here's a recent image of the Pinwheel Galaxy ("M3")
made by Mohawk Valley Astronomical Society member Don Yacco from our Observatory at WPL.
(It's actually a composite of ten ISO 1600 images.)
"M33, like our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is composed of Billions of stars. It is about 3 million light years away (18 trillion miles) from Earth. So the light that reached Don's camera took 3 million years to get here, travelling at 186,000 miles per second. We're seeing across an unimaginable distance, 3 million years into the past-- long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth!
"Incidentally, many of the light "dots" in Don's photograph are not individual stars; rather other galaxies and star clusters that are each composed of billions of stars! Mind boggling and awe inspiring to say the least.
"Watch the MVAS website for announcements of upcoming public events at the Observatory! http://www.mvas-ny.org/"
Thanks ever so much, Jeff - and Don!
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Blog Readers Recommend These January Pastimes
Watch it on ESPN2 - Time-Warner Ch. 25
All-British TV, 24/7, via ROKU.
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Other Things to do this week
were listed in yesterday's blog post.
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Have a great day everyone!
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