First Snow...in Laramie

This time last year, a few days before my birthday, white stuff fell from the sky in the Tetons onto the Kelly Campus. I am not at all surprised that snow has started to fall roughly the same time this year!

Great....

Little Blue, I know Laramie is going to be different many aspects, but are you ready to handle another Wyoming Winter?!?! It seems the warm seasons here are just too short. Hang in there, Girl! We got one year already under our belts, another year is gonna be a little bit easier...I hope!??! We're already used to it and know what to expect!

But, let's celebrate my birthday first...then snow can come!

Thanks!

TheChristyBel

Little Blue, Are You Ready?!?!?

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

First Snow of the Season...On the Mountains!

First Snow of the Season...On the Mountains!
Photo Credit to Kate Bodey, Teton Science School Graduate Program Faculty

There you have it my east coasters and followers!  Today was the day....even right before my birthday when we looked at the Teton Range this morning, and what did we see?!?!?!?!

SNOW!!!!

People are here got really excited.  For me...well, I mean, it was a really exciting moment to see snow on  those beautiful peaks, but it just made me think of how cold and snowy it will get here!  And well, not going to lie, I was nervous and anxious.

But then I thought, I am going to experience for once in my life...SNOW, sure I've seen snow before, but Real Mountain Snow...oh man!  Which means not only am I experiencing my first real snow, but I will be experiencing my first real winter, my first real Wyoming Snowy Winter, skiing, snowboarding, snow-shoeing, cross-country skiing, and the list will probably be going on!

So yes, I am excited!  But also anxious!  A good anxious!

Throughout the day you can see it did melt a smidger...but there is still white up there!

Pretty cool!

Will get back to my updates on Introduction to Field Science Teaching and my first opportunity to teach a program!  I'll just give you a little teaser: It was AWESOME!

I'll talk to you all soon,

TheChristyBel