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Winter is coming fast to Wyoming, and it will be as it always is--beautiful and wicked. You could feel it in the air last week as ships of clouds sailed the blue sky above Laramie, snow-capped mountains rose in the distance, and a small herd of deer roamed the rocky ridge where Matthew Shepard, a gay student who loved Wyoming, was lynched...
Neither rain nor sleet nor snow would keep All-American James Blake from living up to that adjective...
...Lane, reading signs is common sense. Thicker than normal fur on wild animals is a dead giveaway that cold weather is coming. Rings around the moon mean rain or snow is on the way soon. "Nature has a way of taking care of her own," says Lane. "If you pay attention, then you know what you need...
...pays attention to many things. Correctly interpret the woolly worms--inch-long fuzzy caterpillars, also called woolly bears--and you can determine the winter's snowfall; the more solid-black worms, the more snow; the more solid-brown worms, the less snow. But if more worms are black on the ends and brown in the middle, that means winter will "start and end hard," Lane says, while brown ends and a black middle mean a mild fall and early spring but a harsh midwinter. Each fog forming in August foretells a measurable snowfall. Thick corn shucks also mean a cold...
Instead, they base the festivities on the harvest. Because autumn comes earlier to Canada, if they waited until the end of November, snow would cover the crops and there wouldn't be much of a reason to party. But it's no revelation to Canadians that Americans don't know when to hold their own holiday. "Canadian Thanksgiving is set on a day that makes sense. We have a better sense of how to do everything," says James Y. Ko '00, a Toronto native...