Spanish for the Nino

I don't know, this might be a little presumptious, but I think I'm feelin' a big snow/water year. I don't know what it is, maybe it's the smell of the fall air, or the fact that it's rained more in the last three months than I think it's rained the rest of my life, nevertheless it just seems like it's going to happen. Then they're (whoever "they" are) sayin' it's an El Nino year...Farmer's Almanac is predicting a big snow year, and the twelve year cycle...1983, 1995...2007...think white thoughts. According to Cami it's snowing right now in Gunnison, there's 12" of fresh in vail, and Pikes is white as can be...hmmm.

My dad's got an old saying, well he probably got it from somebody else, but as far as I know it's his. Go into the woods in the early fall and find a beehive in a tree. The height of the beehive roughly correlates to just a little above the snow level for the winter. Anyone seen any beehives in the woods this year?


Nokhu Crags
Photo courtesy of Nick Hamilton.