February 27

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Ok.  I've been corrected -- it's not "steam," it's "water vapor."  At least it's not "smoke," right?

This image shows you one reason why I think it's "water vapor" rather than "Mama Nature's clouds."  See how there are none of them to the left of the sun?  The clouds I've been seeing in the morning (since I deduced they are emanating from the smoke stacks) seem to always originate at one point.  We can't see the smoke stacks to make sure.  I don't know if they are tall enough.  And even if they are, I think they are behind the evergreens which surround the sun in this next pic.

A wider view.  Trash day at sunrise, in Tree Town.  It has been so cold that basically none of the snow has melted.  It's deep in the lawn extensions (hence our trash bin in the end of our driveway, rather than on the extension).

Note that the pile of snow/ice just to the right of our driveway is nearly as tall as our trash bin.  The pile across the street is taller.  That's a lot of snow/ice.  Luckily we've not gotten another big batch of snow.  We've been getting an inch here, an inch there, and three inches another time.  Not enough, thank goodness, to mobilize the #)($^& plows.

Another look at the water vapor.  Note again -- nothing but air to the left of the sun.  No clouds, man-made or Mama-Nature-made.

All that visible water vapor means it's cold.  So does the frost on the window.

Closer crops of the above.

A little new snow.

Our mail carrier is not a big person, but she wears big boots.

Much later.  This is sunset.  It's a bit reminiscent of sunrise, no?  But this is the reflection of the setting sun on buildings downtown.  You can't see these building at all, during the daytime (nor in the summertime).  But when the trees are bare, and the sun sets just right, it looks like huge fires downtown.

These buildings are about exactly where we see the sun at sunrise.

I wonder what that gold light is, near the top of the image, over to the right.  Way too high to be associated with the lit-up buildings we see at bottom left.....  But just as bright as the sun on the buildings.  I saw it when I was taking the pics, and caught it in several pics.  It seemed to be behind the trees (rather than in them).  Odd.

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