It is so nice to walk out on a clear cold night after it has been cloudy for days. You take deep breath and cool your lungs. The wood smoke from the chimney perfumes the air. The temps aren't very frosty yet, but the air feels cold. The same temps a few months from now will feel like spring is here.
It is a nice night for viewing stars. Nature's Blog had a nice discussion of The Pleiades cluster. It sounds interesting and worth looking for.
The clear night was followed by a clear morning sky criss crossed with jet vapor trails. It must have been a calm day to fly, as most of the trails were still fairly narrow and straight. It was a fine day for a walk on the Cheat Lake trail. This 4 + mile trail follows the eastern shore of Cheat Lake east of Morgantown, West Virginia. I was trying to imagine how far above the original river bed we were while walking on this trail.
Cheat Lake (formerly Lake Lynn) was created in the late 1920s by a hydroelectric dam built by West Penn Power. This 58 megawatt generating station is basically a starter engine for the larger coal fired power plants at Fort Martin and Albright, West Virginia, according to Allegheny Power who now owns the dam.
Following the flood here in 1985, Lake Lynn dam was the stopping point for many of the structures washed down the swollen Cheat River.
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