2 December 2023

Saturday blogs usually show what I’ve “Seen This Week” but I have only one worthy photo, shown above. For the rest I’ve chosen sights that are timely for the season and seen at some point.

This Wednesday the water was low in the Monongahela River at Duck Hollow, just as it is in this photo from Nov 2020. However the sky was not so blue and it was very cold!

Wednesday’s low was 21°F but today will warm to nearly 60°F. No frost today like the bit shown below from Nov 2021.

The trees are bare now and showing off their silhouettes. Here are three typical sights on the cusp of December.

You can identify young American elm trees by their twig arrangement that look like fish skeletons.

Black locust trees are always gnarly but this one was made worse when it was trimmed away from the utility wires in 2012.

(photos by Kate St. John)