You buy a snow shovel and the next morning there is a skiff of snow upon the land. Gary mentions a bit of the same in south Easlakia.
Birds on new birdfeeder, too. We really ought to sign with with those eggheads at Cornell's FeederWatch program. Within an hour of putting it up, a female cardinal was nosing around. There have also been black-faced white-bodied tundra swans out in the mouth of the Little Cataraqui feeding arse up amongst the Canada geese. Don't think they are trumpeters.
Click on the map for a better view of Easlakia and environs, part of the Great Lakes League.
Comments
gr - November 20, 2006 10:29 am
LOWER Eastlakia.
Alan - November 20, 2006 11:12 am
That was never ratified by the full convention.
Gordo - November 20, 2006 11:54 am
I'm not sure that a dusting of snow on the rooftops qualifies as a "skiff of snow upon the land", Alan. It was nice, though. Cameron can screaming down the hall: "It's snowing! It's Snowing!" :-D
I hereby move that Gary's neck of the woods be forever known as "Lower Eastlakia".
Seconder?
Alan - November 20, 2006 12:12 pm
You are a northern Easlakian. You have no vote on this matter. NYCO needs input.
Gordo - November 20, 2006 12:39 pm
Geographic segregation is hardly called for, Alan.
Alan - November 20, 2006 12:41 pm
I think we have to accept local needs in these matters. We have not even heard from central Easlakia at all.
Gordo - November 20, 2006 1:16 pm
Where would Central be?
To tell the truth, I kind of like Upper Easlakia vs. Northern ... :-D
NYCO - November 20, 2006 1:35 pm
I like Upper and Lower!
Central Easlakia, of course, is Tug Hill.
Alan - November 20, 2006 1:40 pm
I popped home for lunch and was able to check out the notes and drawings from the convention and note the following proposed boundaries for the three cantons of Easlakia:<p><center><a href="images/2006h/easlakia2.JPG"><img src="images/2006h/easlakia2a.JPG" vspace="5"><br><i>click</i><p></a></center><p>Note the enclaves of Oswego and Ogdensburg reserved to the northern canton while Tug Hill was included in the central one.
gr - November 20, 2006 1:57 pm
HEY! I live on the O of south! neat. Exept it is LOWER, not south.
We had that dusting, but typical of eastlakia, it came down fast and furious for awhile, reminding me of Dr Zhivago and Omar Shariff wandering through snowy wastes looking for Julie Christie (or however that movie went)
I want to be COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN of LOWER EASTLAKIA, of the great lakes league of bloggers.
Gordo - November 20, 2006 8:54 pm
An emeritus prof at work and long time birder tells me that not only are they tundra swans, there are hundreds of them in Button Bay on Wolfe Island. They don't normally come this close to Kingston.