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Almanacs RSS FeedsRows and flows of angel hair - Greetings from Bangor, Maine!According to urban legend, the Inuit (aka Eskimo) have forty words for snow. This “old wives’ tale” is so widespread, you may occasionally encounter it cited as fact in popular media. This article from wikipedia explains the grain of truth in this otherwise phony folk wisdom.It occurs to your editor that if our present weather pattern continues for too much longer, there will be a counterpart urban legend told about the good people <br /><a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/NorumbegaAlmanac/comment.html?entrynum=88&tstamp=200808">Read More</a>...Feed Source: www.wunderground.com On Average - Greetings from Bangor, Maine!The old timers know that the miracle of Maine's climate is that everything usually averages out. May was a case in point. It had been a dry month. Gardeners had unknowingly formed a serial chorus: everyone of them you talked to were singing the same number about needing rain. Right unto the dying embers of the 30th, we'd reveived a scant 2.13 inches in Our Fair City. An inch and a quarter below normal for the month. The forcast <br /><a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/NorumbegaAlmanac/comment.html?entrynum=85&tstamp=200806">Read More</a>... Showers and flowers - Greetings from Bangor, Maine!Among the rewards of spring is the sense of something new on an almost daily basis. No more have the forsythias gone the way of all grass than the rhododendrons burst forth in all their fushia-ness. As they wane, the crab apples explode into white and pink. West Market Square is positively fragrent with their scent!Yesterday, our first official thunderstorm brought light and sound and hail -- peasize, though more of the petit variety tha <br /><a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/NorumbegaAlmanac/comment.html?entrynum=84&tstamp=200805">Read More</a>... Whiz season - Greetings from Bangor, Maine!The City put out the docks this morning – a work yet in progress, but a harbinger of pleasure craft moored at the waterfront in deep summer. By the time the Folk Festival descends at summer's end, there won't be a slip to be had. When Eliot spoke of April as the cruelest month, he meant that winter's rest was past and the cusp of spring brought commitments whose pursuit was inexorable. Here in Our Fair City, the climate <br /><a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/NorumbegaAlmanac/comment.html?entrynum=83&tstamp=200805">Read More</a>... The shoals of dreams - Greetings from Bangor, Maine!The waters in the Penobscot River and the Kenduskeag Stream have abated and are pretty much back to normal levels as of Wednesday. We hear word that northern Maine is crawling with FEMA inspectors, and that hope is in the air for a return to normalacy there, too.The cherry trees outside my window are showing signs of optimism about blooming soon. Monday evening, I found tulips and daffodils on, appropriately enough, Garland Street. The l <br /><a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/NorumbegaAlmanac/comment.html?entrynum=82&tstamp=200805">Read More</a>... News: U.S Presidential Candidates Release Space Policies - U.S Presidential Candidates Release Space Policies (from Planetary News)... News: Cassini to Shoot Past Enceladus for Its Fifth Close Encounter - Cassini to Shoot Past Enceladus for Its Fifth Close Encounter (from Planetary News)... News: Alien Rumors Quelled as NASA Announces Phoenix Perchlorate Discovery - Alien Rumors Quelled as NASA Announces Phoenix Perchlorate Discovery (from Planetary News)... News: ESA's Rosetta Has Asteroid Steins in Sight - ESA's Rosetta Has Asteroid Steins in Sight (from Planetary News)... News: Phoenix Confirms Water-Ice on Mars, But Finds Evidence of Soil Habitability Inconclusive, and No, It Hasn't Found Life - Phoenix Confirms Water-Ice on Mars, But Finds Evidence of Soil Habitability Inconclusive, and No, It Hasn't Found Life (from Planetary News)... Press Release: Save a Telescope, Save the Planet! - On the Planetary Society web site: Save a Telescope, Save the Planet!... In The News: U.S. not prepared for possible asteroid strike, group says - On the Planetary Society web site: U.S. not prepared for possible asteroid strike, group says... Advice of the Day for Friday, August 29, 2008 - To dream of your love, put a sprig of thyme in one shoe and rosemary in the other.From The Old Farmer's Almanac.... Advice of the Day for Thursday, August 28, 2008 - Choose a wife by your ear rather than your eye.From The Old Farmer's Almanac.... Advice of the Day for Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. -- Mother TeresaFrom The Old Farmer's Almanac.... Advice of the Day for Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - Better on the heath with an old cart than at sea with a new ship.From The Old Farmer's Almanac.... Advice of the Day for Monday, August 25, 2008 - To dream of a plow indicates a new project.From The Old Farmer's Almanac.... Copyright © 2008, Fwenz.Info. All Rights Reserved. |