Written on Snow

Street Smart Naturalist · Feb 13, 2025 · 5m · transcript

Few natural story tellers are better than snow. Or more ephemeral. I was lucky enough to read some of the stories told by snow in Seattle’s recent snowmageddon. For those not from my fair city, we got about 2 inches of the white stuff or enough to cause general panic and chaos. Steep hills, a lack of equipment to deal with snow, and over confident drivers are not a good recipe for safe travel. One year, the lack of preparation for snow even led to the political demise of our mayor.

Taking advantage of the snow, I walked down to Green Lake, a small body of water about ten minutes south of our…