Green Up

It's been around freezing here for the past week. The sun gets highest in the sky at local noon so there is a little more solar energy during the "day" than at "night." The difference has been enough to melt some snow during the day and freeze over the tops of puddles at night.

The melting snow means there are several streams running through town. Luckily all the buildings are on stilts (for a number of reasons) so there hasn't been any flooding. It also means that the snow banks are disappearing and revealing the trash they covered during the winter.

I spent some time yesterday gathering the pieces of shipping crates that got hidden from the snowplow in the snow and picking up the construction debris that littered the road. The odd thing about picking up trash down here is that while there isn't snow on top about half of it is still frozen to the ground. So there is a lot still to pick up but I'll have to wait a couple of weeks for it all to warm up and come loose.