February 2, 2013

Please note: Be sure to look at earlier articles, especially the
 lovely Site Section butterfly poster in the article titled
Wednesday, January 30, 2013.
You can help support the
Blue Ridge Discovery Center by purchasing a poster and have
a permanent view of spring and summer treasures, too!


By Saturday, the air was again cold and crisp. A new ice show was on display 

as also were doggie fashions:

The photo below shows a close up of  ice spread across a small

tree branch. Can you find that same spread ice in the photo above?

 

January 31

January ended with another storm that brought rains that 

filled streams and rivers until they swelled out of their 

banks and beyond their flood plains. 

On Thursday afternoon, I as walked  through the 

tunnel in Wildwood and  looked out toward Bisset Park,

I could see that the New River had moved its edge 

beyond the train underpass:

The signal light remained on green because no vehicles could

travel over the the water-covered road:

I had reached the end of the path for that day.

 

January 26 - 29

As the temperatures begin to warm a bit, the ice and

snow begin to melt:

The trail that goes up the Grand Staircase and on up the
east slope passes by a ravine where icicles form away
from the warm rays of the sun.

A day of unusually warm winter weather makes the
ice disappear quickly:

January 22, 2013

The ice show at the Main Street entrance to Wildwood Park is 

always an ever-changing spectacle. 

 

The snow doesn't both our resident robins:

A little boy could not resist making a snowman:

Rocks along Wildwood Drive have water  stopped by the cold:

January 18 + one

I could hardly wait to get out with my camera on January 18!

It had snowed much of the night, and I was eager to see

Wildwood Park in its winter blanket:

 

 

 

And here is one from the next day:

I hope that you added you own "oooh and ahhhh"!

January 17, 2013

When snow began falling in the afternoon of January 17, it was heavy

 and wet:

My husband drove me down to the 2nd Avenue parking lot in
his truck to get these shots - sure am glad it has 4-wheel drive!

January 16, 2013

Wildwood Park (and the rest of Southwestern Virginia) has experienced 

several different weather changes from mid-January through the beginning

 of February. Come walk with my camera and me to see these for yourself,

starting with high water: