July 4th, Happy Holidays to our friends to the south
It was a very restless sleep overnight, very hot and muggy. We got rain that we needed, and in the transient sleep I saw lighting flashes, strange squeels and the…
A walk by Kingston’s Inner Habour
Some impressive clouds over the Canadian Shield, just north of Kingston
Growing Season update
We’ve been collecting temperature data from our weather station for some years now. We’ve analyzed this to determine the number of days our growing season is. Some crops can survive…
1st day of spring
Tuesday March 20th, 2012. The first day of spring with temperature at home hitting 29 deg C. In reality they probably did not hit quite that high as the outdoor…
Clear skies before the storm
This morning a series of thunderstorms started rolling through the area, starting around 03:30 or so. We had many close by lightning strikes and at least two power outages. One…
Radio Jove
Our radio jove receiver and audio speakers moved from sitting atop a floor shelf to being hung up on the wall, more out of the way, less chance of cables…
severe rainfall
Kingston suffered through a severe rainfall on Friday July 29th, 2011 and here is an image of the event at the Hospital The shear amount of rain (77-100mm) in four…
Approaching new moon
Kim captured this thin crescent moon during sunrise on a Thursday morning, July 28th, 2011, two days before new moon.
weekend notes
GLOBE at Night: encourages citizen-scientists worldwide to record the brightness of the night sky. During 2 weeks of moonless evenings, children and adults match the appearance of a constellation (Leo…
The day is clear and windy
This week has been quite a week. Monday- interviews for my class project at the Mission in Partners Food Bank and the Loving Spoonful. Wednesday-We saw our first Robin, and…
Feb L&A Hort
The February meeting of the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society was last night, Wednesday Feb 16th. Too bad it conflicted with the new season of Survivor and the finale of…
catching up
It’s been busy the last couple of weeks: * Snow and more snow. The Great Groundhog Day Blizzard hit on Feb 2nd and left us with a pile. * WordPress…
Growing Days
A followup of non frost growing days using the “light frost dates” , ie actual growing days where the temperature is always above freezing: 2003 = 172 days = 24…
Frost days
At a recent meeting of our local Seed Savers group, we talked a little about the various climate types across the area. In an effort to visualize this, ewe have…