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Friday Photography Blog No. 27 | 174 comments (174 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Yesterday, I was complaining how ugly and dirty everything gets between the last snow and the greening up of spring. So this is what I see out my windows this morning. My grandfather used to call March snowstorms "poor man's fertilizer" because it provided nitrogen and moisture for spring planting.

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by techno (reply@elegant-technology.com) on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 09:55:54 AM EST
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Re: Good Friday snow (4.00 / 2)

Same expression among peasants in France: l'azote du pauvre = the poor man's nitrogen.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 09:58:47 AM EST
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Re: Good Friday snow (none / 0)

Apparently the Swedes got more than a royal family from France. This is VERY interesting to know. Thanks afew!

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by techno (reply@elegant-technology.com) on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 10:27:16 AM EST
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Re: Good Friday snow (none / 1)

The Stockholm Swedes also got their affected ululating diction from the French court. It doesn't exist in Finland, where pronunciation is a preserved form of pre-Bernadotte Swedish.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 10:45:02 AM EST
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Re: Good Friday snow (none / 1)

Provided nitrogen?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 10:28:38 AM EST
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Re: Good Friday snow (none / 1)

Sorry. I once had a high school chemistry teacher explain how snowfall fixes atmospheric nitrogen (lightning also works) but I could not explain it now if my life depended on it.

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by techno (reply@elegant-technology.com) on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 12:12:41 PM EST
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Re: Good Friday snow (4.00 / 3)

I believe it's mostly a trapping effect. There's a constant nitrogen exchange from soil to air in winter, when vegetation is not drawing on the soil's nitrogen resources; this is particularly true of fields left bare, ploughed before winter, etc. Snow blankets the ground and prevents the exchange taking place. Mulch will do the same thing.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 12:22:43 PM EST
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