Download or read book A Snow Book Northern Scotland written by Adam Watson and published by Paragon Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents long-term studies of snow on high land in the Cairmgorms, including fresh snow lying in summer, the extent of snow on Ben Macdui plateau at the start of June, and dates of the first fresh lying snowfalls at the sites of the main snow-beds. It reviews data on the survival of snow patches through to the following winter, and recounts a decline of snow patches in recent decades. The author describes observations on rock lichens in relation to snow-lie, and lists vantage points on public roads with good views of places with snow patches on alpine land. He describes skiing in and near Aberdeen in the snowy winters of the early 1950s, and an exceptional snowfall in the Cairngorms at the start of September 1976. The author presents some descriptions and photographs of how birds and mammals use snow for shelter and sleeping. It has long been well known that red grouse, ptarmigan and mountain hares use snow hollows, but here the author illustrates how a fox used a snow hole, and how an otter made a snow slide. He presents photographs of snow pillars, snow holes made by human parties practising in winter, and avalanches. Next he draws attention to the observation that the extent and species of lichen and moss on cliffs, boulders and soil signify the extent of snow-lie. These plants are absent on sites where snow lies very late, or where frequent avalanches plunging down the cliff or water flowing down it prevent plants from growing. Where prolonged snow-lie occurs at the foot of cliffs or on cliff-tops, a band of pale, greenish-yellow rock lichens that thrive in snowy conditions is conspicuous, and in sunshine easily visible to the naked eye at over a mile distance. Lastly he presents some photographs that show snow mould growing on hill vegetation in Iceland and Scotland. Keywords Snow, climate, weather, physical geography, science, birds, mammals Author Adam Watson, BSc, PhD, DSc, DUniv, raised in lowland Aberdeenshire, is a retired research ecologist aged 81. He began lifelong interests on winter snow in 1937, snow patches in 1938, the Cairngorms in 1939. A mountaineer and ski-mountaineer since boyhood, he has experienced Scotland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, mainland Canada, Newfoundland, Baffin Island, Finland, Switzerland, Italy, Vancouver Island and Alaska. His main research was and is on population biology, behaviour and habitat of northern birds and mammals. In retirement he has contributed 16 scientific publications on snow patches since 1994. He is a Fellow of the Arctic Institute of North America, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Royal Meteorological Society, Royal Society of Edinburgh, and Society of Biology, and an Emeritus Member of the Ecological Society of America. Since 1954 he has been a member of the Scottish Mountaineering Club and since 1968 author of the Club's District Guide to the Cairngorms.

Download or read book The Big Snow Book 7 written by Wiley Blevins and published by Red Chair Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ick and Crud are surprised when duty calls and they discover the first big snowfall of the season. It's fun to play in the white fluffy stuff. But then Bob takes the boys to Mrs. Martin's house to warm up. The canine crew can't wait to get back to their cat-free home!

Download or read book The Snow Fox written by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great samurai and a beautiful poet fall in love in this novel of medieval Japan that examines a renewed love that's fraught by the Japanese concept of "mono no aware"--life's ephemeral nature--that weighs on the lovers.

Download or read book The Snow Man written by Diana Palmer and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times–bestselling author: Colorado winters are rugged and cold, but there’s nothing like a cowboy’s warm kiss to ignite the spirit of the season . . . Originally published in the collection Christmas with My Cowboy Meadow Dawson needs Santa to deliver a solution to her management of the enormous Colorado ranch she’s inherited. YouTube videos just aren’t going to cut it. Too bad she’s not on speaking terms with the one man who can help her out . . . Cattleman Dal Blake just wants his too pretty, too clumsy, and too inexperienced neighbor’s dog to quit digging under his fence. But this Christmas, the unexpected gift of love will surprise them both. “No one beats this author for sensual anticipation.” —Rave Reviews

Download or read book The Snow Church Company s Legal and Banking Year Book written by William L. Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Snow Angel Story Book written by Sandy Winnette and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children smile with surprise when little Beth's Christmas snow angel comes to life! All the forest animals gather around to see. Feel Christmas in the air when little Beth and her mystical Nana fly together with the snow angel to meet Saint Nick at Sweet Snow Valley. This is an amazing story about a little girl and her magical wish when she makes her snow angel. You will feel the warmth of Forest Manor, mixed with the charm of the country snow in this eighteenth century setting. Little Beth lives at Forest Manor with her mother who is an artist. Her father writes stories and travels with his work. Cook takes care of the house, makes the best tea cookies and is considered part of the family. Little Beth plays with her dolls on the staircase that leads to her bedroom at the top of the stairs. She looks out her window towards the forest and watches the animals come into the meadow below. Today is the Christmas party and Beth is wearing her new party dress. She is holding her new doll, Angel Grace. She peeks out the curtains watching guest arrive. One after another horses pull fancy carriages down the road to Forest Manor. While the party takes place little Beth will go out into the snow to leave some scraps of food for the forest animals. She decides to make a snow angel and she makes a wish. Her wish comes true and all of the forest animals see a beautiful snow angel come to life. Fun filled with the imagination of a little girl, her magical snow angel and all the animals in the forest. Author: Sandy Winnette (817) 372-2084 Editor: Cathy Scofield

Download or read book The Snow Child written by Eowyn Ivey and published by Reagan Arthur Books. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep. Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart -- he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone -- but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.

Download or read book What Can Live in the Snow written by John-Paul Wilkins and published by Raintree. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With fantastic images and simple text, books in this series serve as a perfect introduction to different habitats and show how a wide variety of animals and plants are beautifully adapted to live there. In What Can Live in the Snow? Readers learn about what conditions in cold, snowy habitats are like, microhabitats and the ingenious ways plants and animals are designed to live and survive in these places.

Download or read book The Green Book Or Freedom Under the Snow written by Mór Jókai and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is set at the time of the 1825 December uprising in Russia. The first chapter opens with a description of a large party of Dun Cossacks, military personnel, riding in the dark and snowy moonlight through a snow-covered forest. The men ride on small horses and there are two gun carriages towed along by six horses for each. On the first is a cannon, and on the second, a body, badly injured but still living as can be told by the drops of blood still falling from it.

Download or read book The Snow Patrol written by Roz Marshall and published by Aye Alba Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White knights don't always wear shining armour Lost and alone at the end of a day's skiing, White Cairns' instructor Debbie McNeill is facing her worst nightmare - until a dreamboat ski patroller comes to her aid. But, to her surprise, she discovers that this snowy equivalent of a knight in shining armour has a secret... :: The Snow Patrol is a 'flash fiction' (very short story) in the Secrets in the Snow series about the instructors of a Scottish snowsports school, and features Debbie and a mysterious stranger.

Download or read book The Little Book of Snow written by Sally Coulthard and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Book of Snow is a charming celebration of all things snow. This sweet book includes entries like how to build the perfect snowman, what gives snow its color, and snow-inspired folklore from around the world. With iridescent white foil and lovely woodblock illustrations throughout, this petite book makes a wonderful gift. • Features captivating trivia about snow • Follows delightful traditions about winter wonderlands The Little Book of Snow is a lovely book for winter sports enthusiasts and anyone who enjoys the magic of a winter wonderland. • A celebration of the joys of winter • Makes a holiday book for outdoorsy people, winter sport fanatics, those who live in snowy climates, and anyone who has a cabin. • You'll love this book if you love books like The History of the Snowman by Bob Eckstein, Snow Play by Birgitta Ralston, and Powder: The Greatest Ski Runs on the Planet by Patrick Thorne.

Download or read book The Snow Queen Colouring Book written by Helen Crawford-White and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My goodness! Such beauty and fine smells! Every imaginable flower from the entire year stood there in the most magnificent blossom. No picture book could be more colourful or gorgeous." "A little boy and a little girl live happily in a big city. The little boy's name is Kai, and the little girl's name is Gerda. But one day, Kai is kidnapped by the wicked Snow Queen and swept away to live for ever in her kingdom of ice. Follow Gerda as she travels through snow-filled fields and endless forests in order to find her beloved friend. From the city rooftops to the snows of Lapland, from the Northern Lights to the palace of the Snow Queen herself, a mesmerising world of icy journeys is waiting to be brought to life by your pen..." A gorgeous, beautifully designed coloring book: 30 unique and exquisite spreads, inspired by the classic fairy tale, of line drawings of winter landscapes, flower-filled meadows, crows, princesses, castles and reindeers, accompanied by quotes from Andersen's timeless tale.

Download or read book Holiday Kisses in the Snow written by Lexi Buchanan and published by HFCA Publishing House. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kissing Under the Mistletoe Gabe has been brought up with Bree, since he was nine years old when his parents died. Now he’s twenty six and been in love with Bree for the past seven years. She’s coming home for the holidays and has him so tied in knots he can’t think straight. Bree avoided going home for the holidays last year because she didn’t think she’d be able to handle being around Gabe, the man she’s in love with, who she thinks she can never be with. Or can she? To begin with both Gabe and Bree sneak around together and eventually Bree’s mother finds out and accepts them as a couple, but announcing it to her father causes heartache with the bombshell he drops. Join Gabe and Bree in a Christmas story where love conquers all…. and were Bree discovers Gabe knows just how to use a red ribbon… A Soldier's Christmas Back Stateside after a three-year absence, Staff Sergeant Logan Richards is lacking any enthusiasm for the holidays looming ahead of him. With a heavy heart he unpacks his kitbag and comes across a bundle of letters. Logan is instantly struck by their significance and his head is quickly filled with sweet words, expressions of comfort and pages of hope. He starts to think of the woman behind the neat script, would she be happy to meet him? Emma struggles to find any seasonal spirit. It has been months since she received a letter from the soldier she has been writing to and it has left her with a persistent empty feeling, her heart aches with thoughts of what could have happened to him. In one last hopeful gesture, Emma sends him a special care package and wishes for contact. They met as strangers across the miles, letters forging a tentative friendship. Now can the Christmas spirit weave it’s seasonal magic and bring two lonely hearts together.

Download or read book Spiritual Adventures in the Snow written by Dr. Marcia McFee and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn your recreation in the snow into a spiritual high point! Activities that are exhilarating and fun are not usually thought of as spiritual. But to the contrary, such ventures may well point us to our most profound spiritual connections. For when we are able to come fully into the present moment, turn off the noise in our minds, feel our true essence as complete union of body-mind-spirit, we enter into a kind of other worldly state of ecstasy that we can experience only as a spiritual dimension.from Chapter 1 Debunking the myth that your body has nothing to do with your spiritual life, avid winter sports enthusiasts Dr. Marcia McFee and Rev. Karen Foster demonstrate how spirituality is fed by play and challenge and how your snow-filled adventures can serve as a set of metaphors for seeing lifes ups and downs as part of a sacred rhythm. Whether you have a need for speed or are drawn toward more lyrical motion, McFee and Foster offer poignant insights on how you can find your peak spiritual life in your favorite snow sport, no matter your skill level. Learn how to: Reduce stress and embrace your need for fun Achieve harmonious integration of mind, body, and spirit Trust your bodys inherent wisdom Appreciate the details in nature and everyday life Clear your head and persevere in difficult times Cultivate a sense of community

Download or read book I Like the Snow written by Sarah Nelson and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyrical, rhyming text and playful, hand-painted illustrations invite young readers to share in the beauty of swirling snow. Includes educational STEM endmatter about snow and how it helps humans and the earth.

Download or read book Tiny the Snow Dog written by Cari Meister and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-09-10 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiny and his best friend love winter. And the best thing about winter is playing in the snow! Tiny's friend throws a snowball, and Tiny runs to catch it. Tiny runs and runs until his friend can't see him anymore. Where is Tiny? He is missing! And what is that sound? Is it a snow monster crunching through the snow, or is it just Tiny the snow dog?

Download or read book Rise Of The Snow Queen Book One The Polar Bear King written by G.W. Mullins and published by Light Of The Moon Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: