Week 17

First of all this picture is a day late and an hour early - I took it on Thursday at 2 p.m.  I was not able to locate the camera on time Wednesday morning and had to go out the door without it.

The picture for this week has two unique features.  People and the flag!  Usually the Columbia College flag is at the left side of the picture, just out of sight, and the wind is blowing in a direction so that we cannot see it.  This week the wind was blowing the flag so that it is visible in the picture.  I did not notice it until after I got home and prepared to upload it.  If you look at the other pictures you can see the base of the flag pole in the lower left hand corner, but never the flag itself.  I will have to consult the prevailing wind for Columbia but no doubt it is not ordinarily one that is in a westerly direction.  Also there are people in the shot! For the first time in 17 weeks there are people outside involved in some kind of science activity.  So that is another pleasant change. Two firsts in one week and strange that it took so long for them to show up.

As I finish this it is snowing.  A determined snow that will probably bring some accumulation.  However, this week has otherwise been exactly as depicted in this picture with very little variation in temperature.  Cold and gray with some days a little warmer than others but still with that overcast sky.  Cheerless.