September 25 - First Snow Day on Campus

Well....we woke up for some of the first snow flakes fluttering down from the sky onto Kelly Campus.  I felt pretty bad I did not fully prepare Luke for a wintery wonderland in the park.  But somehow he seemed to manage to hike several places in the park.

While he was able to have some fun on the trails, I, along with the rest of the graduate cohort spent the day conducting WY Stream Team studies in Ditch Creek in the freezing rain, sleet, and snow!  This was really fun - it reminded me of the Delaware Nature Society's Stream Watch & Technical Monitoring Program.  So it was nice to refresh!

Snowy rooftops in the Grad Circle

Unfortunately and fortunately the snow did not last on the ground in the valley that long.  By late afternoon, the sun had melted all the snow away and all that was left was thousands of feet high up in the mountains!

Beautiful White Peaks by the Afternoon

A Mule Deer Family Hanging Out Near My Cabin
Photo Credit to Doug Fisher, TSS Faculty

Cloudy & Snowy Up in the Mountains

Hopefully I can have a little bit more of an Autumn Season before the bigger amounts of snow fall down on us!  Until then, here is a moment of the graduate students expressing their feelings about the first snow of the season on Kelly Campus!

Have a Great Snow Day!
TheChristyBel

First Snow of the Season on Campus!  Grad Students, How Do You Feel?!?
Photo Credit to Heather Wakeman, Fellow Graduate Student