HIPPYVALLEY

My trees are loaded too.

Oh no! Charlie O’s was my hang. That was long before any of the hipster bars were there. Great local bands would play there.

Jezuz, that city has taken some lumps this year. I lived there in 1997 and loved that community.

The freezing fog tonight is a nice touch on a wintery Nov 1st.

Because I know how some of you wait, with breathless anticipation, for my first snowy pine tree pictures of the season.

Nice finale. Snow is sticking even in downtown Greenfield.

That is up at about 900’ in Colrain. Even down at my house there was a coating though.

Coating on the ground at home.

First flakes of the season in Greenfield!

Upcoming weekend looks decent.

Fraud five.

It’s been drizzling and/or raining for over 30 hours here.

Recycling myths and truths: https://www.colorado.edu/ecenter/2022/04/26/debunking-recycling-myths

Maybe we should all just start with being aware of our individual decisions as humans. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Conserve energy, compost, buy durable products. Households should not be producing multiple bags of landfill bound trash per week.

Should’ve nailed it with a slingshot!

When the sun came back out we bumped up to 78° Crazy warm day. The warm gusts of wind felt odd. Probably won’t feel those again until Christmas week.

Yeah I know, I just thought we might squeeze in a full day of sun.

Sprinkling here. I didn’t see that in any forecast.

Last shorts weekend of the season. I'm going to get in another outdoor shower or two and then next week looks like first woodstove driven heat of the season.

The wednesday night system in SNE is congrats, maybe, parts of Worcester Co that are > 1000'. Perhaps some lower elevations SE of there see flakes, if it is a wound up storm but expectations should be set low and be happy with seeing first flakes.

Yeah, the timeline is yet to be determined but autopsy should be able to approximate the time of death. Crazy week for Maine folk.

There was a collective WTF? after that. Terrorism in a high school, by two kids that felt oppressed and angry, with the society that existed in that high school.

Agree with all your points. I was 16 years old when the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre happened and I remember people being freaked out that something like that went down in America. I remember watching the news of that Luby's restaurant massacre with my housemate. Both of those defintely were a wake up call. Plus that big postal facility shooting in the 80's. I will say, although 9-11 was obviously a much larger casualty event with global implications, I feel like our collective innocence was ripped open with Columbine HS.

Yeah, even in here Franklin Co, we are pretty accustomed to most crime being petty car break-ins, the occasional robbery and sadly domestic abuse. Nobody who has a driveway locks their car. I know plenty of folks who don't lock their house when they run out for an errand etc.