Eleanour Snow

@docsnow

Geologist, mentor, educator, mom of two great humans. Supporting equity and inclusion in geosciences for 40 years. And just to be be clear, anti-ICE

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Eleanour Snow@docsnow· 10d

My new needle stoppers make me very happy. 😊

Photo of a knitting project on the needles. The yarn is teal and purple. The needles are capped with miniature baseballs. ⚾️

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· 26d

This photo brings me so much joy. The first grandchild’s wedding for my 91-year old father. But also, he could not have done this 6-months ago. My mother’s long departure left him weakened. He’s so much stronger, and younger today. Hoping he is dancing all all the other grandkids weddings too.

Photo: setting is a garden, Victorian home and large trees in the background, grass underfoot. An old man, in blue slacks and a plaid shirt, glasses and white hair, spinning under the arm of a young woman in a long blue dress, dark curly hair, seen from behind. They are dancing, of course.

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· 27d

Found this on our bumper today. I don’t disagree, but I also don’t want it on my car. Peeled off easily; now, where to put it?

Sticker on a dusty, dark gray car, showing a drawing of Donald Trump, head and shoulders, with the word Pedophile below, all caps, black letters on white.

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Jul 20

Oh pshaw! @nytimes.com

Screenshot of the analysis of my recent Wordle game. My guess was entre; the answer was entry.

The Wordle Bot said: “There was only one possible solution left — and this wasn't it. ENTRE is a valid guess and you have a great vocabulary, but Wordle typically uses more common words as solutions.”

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Jul 13

Maybe you’re a funny guy. Maybe you got into politics to help folks. But when the bad things you do are monstrous, they must not be glossed over in death.

A screen shot of a post be Michael Fanone:

“Lindsey Graham is dead. I will always remember my first and only encounter with him when he looked the grieving mother of a dead police officer in the face and barked that he wasn't going to listen to her blame Trump for January 6th. When I showed him my body cam footage from that day he turned away and looked at his phone. Rest in Piss you fucking worthless scumbag. If there is a hell I hope you're in it.”

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Jun 25

It’s a damn good thing we stock our pantry properly, because we’re going to need potato salad for the US World Cup game/dinner tonight. @dukesmayobowl.bsky.social

Photo showing a nearly empty Dukes mayonnaise jar, open, and another full jar (closed) on a dark granodiorite counter.

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Jun 24

Here is Oregon’s Mt. Washington. One of the lesser cascade volcanoes at only 7795 feet.

Photo of a volcanic mountain, mostly bare with some snow patches. Pine and fir forest and a lake in the foreground. Clear sky.

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Jun 15

Our mountains are beautiful, as always, but they are also late-September bare. This does not bode well. North and Middle Sister from Bend OR.

Photo of two cascade volcanoes forming the focus is the image. They have snow in places, but are about 40% bare. Foreground shows treetops and streetlights.

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· May 28

Good morning, Austin.

Screen shot from my Merlin App showing Mourning Dive, Purple Martin, Carolina Wren, Northern Cardinal, and Carolina Chickadee comprise the morning chorus today.

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· May 24

The LBJ Presidential Library in Austin TX has a new exhibit for our 250th. It’s called “What We Bring to the Table, tales of history and home” and it’s presented as stories of families who helped make America. Friends this is an exhibition about immigrants and how they built the US. It’s superb.

A set of 9 tiles with facts about immigrants in the US:

25.7% - share of immigrant workers in the construction industry today
17.7% - share of immigrant workers in the labor force today
14.3% - foreign born residents in the US
230 - number of Fortune 500 companies headed by immigrants or children of immigrants
23.6% - share of STEM workers who are immigrants
$167.28B - amount immigrants pay in rent
$43.8B - economic contributions of international students
28.4% - health aides who are foreign born
58.7 % - share of immigrant plasterers and stucco masons

Additional set of 9 tiles with start is on immigrant contributions.

26.1% - share of immigrants in the agricultural industry
$651.9B - tax contributions by immigrants
74.1% - share of immigrants in the manicurist field
15.9% - percent of nurses who are foreign born
11,615,100 - number of immigrant homeowners
1,126,690 - number of US college students who are international students
$1.7T - immigrant spending power
64.7% - share of immigrant graders and sorters of agricultural products
23.6% - share of entrepreneurs who are immigrants

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· May 22

Just finished CS Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters (1942) - letters from a higher-up in hell advising his nephew, who is new to the recruitment job. Here he explains the ties between fear and hatred and advises sow fear to breed hatred. So relevant to today’s MAGA party.

"Cowardice, alone of all the vices, is purely painful... Hatred has its pleasures. It is therefore often the compensation by which a frightened man reimburses himself for the miseries of Fear. The more he fears, the more he will hate. And Hatred is also a great anodyne for shame. To make a deep wound in his charity, you should therefore first defeat his courage."

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Apr 22

Dusk at my favorite fishing hole. Two Red-winged Blackbirds were sitting on a bush next to the water. The Kingfisher was zooming up and down along the opposite bank, the ducks, of course, were swimming. Deschutes River, Central Oregon.

Screenshot from the Merlin all of the birds identified April 20, Deschutes River. Dusk.

Western Meadowlark, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Green-winged Teal, Belted Kingfisher, Red-winged Blackbird, Canada Goose, Mallard.

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Apr 14

The morning chorus at my fishing cabin (Lower Deschutes River, OR) on Saturday. Also out and about, Anna’s Hummingbird and Osprey, who have occupied all the nesting platforms in the area.

Screenshot from Merlin Bird ID app which shows the following birds identified by sound: House Finch, American Goldfinch, American Robin, American Crow, White-crowned Sparrow, House Sparrow, European Starling, Cedar Waxwing, Red-winged Blackbird.

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Mar 28

Thanks for the gear, @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social All set.

Image of a gray baseball cap on my head reading “Immigrants Make Us Great”

Two tee shirts folded on my bed.

On the left, baseball style white shore reading Resist, vertical on a slash of blue, and, in red on individual lines: bigotry, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, antisemitism, misogyny, hatred, fear, lies.

On the right. V-neck deep steel blue shire reading, on separate lines: Love your neighbor, Be nice, Impeach Trump, And F*uck Ice.

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Mar 19

The SAVE act is not about keeping noncitizens from voting. We have laws for that. It would be the first time in the history of our great country that federal laws were enacted to restrict US citizens’ ability to exercise their constitutional right to vote. I can’t think of anything more shameful.

Image of a tattered US flag, at half staff, blowing in the wind. A dark landscape and sky in the background.

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Mar 14

Happy Pi day, y’all This is from Austin TX about 10 years ago. 5 planes wrote about 100 digits of Pi in the sky.

Photo of a deep blue sky, the sun and some palm-like shade structures in the lower left. Written across the sky, in an arc, are the digits 3.14159265358. Each numeral is rendered in 5 rows of dots. 5 skywriting planes wrote out about 100 digits of Pi in Austin that dates

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Feb 24

I’m not an influencer. I don’t have a large social media following. But in light of this week’s Epstein/Trump revelations, I think women should start sharing how old we were when we first attracted sexual attention from an adult male. @womensmarch.com

A dark gray background with sand dunes and stars. In white, the words “I was 12.”

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Feb 23

Another book recommendation for the times. John Fugelsang was raised very Catholic (as was I) and wrote this book to refute, using the bible, the very anti-Jesus message coming from the “Christian” right. It’s scholarly, it’s funny, it’s shocking, and it’s a great gift for your MAGA pals.

Book cover: The Separation of Church and Hate, A sane persons guide to taking back the bible from fundamentalists, fascists, and flock fleecing frauds. By John Fugelsang

The cover is bright red. The words Separation, Church, and Hate, and the author’s name are in black. The other text is in cream. Different fonts are used to make the text stand out.

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Feb 23

Girl, Woman, Other, B. Evaristo, 2019 Booker Prize is one of those rare books where the prose is so striking that you back up to read it again. TJ Klune’s 2-book story is an allegory to the US today. It’s charming, and a good lesson in fighting for everyone’s rights.

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Feb 22

You shared a photo of this earlier this month. I’ve spent the last week trying to work out the pattern. Heading to Ravelry now to see how I did. 🙃

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Feb 17

Friends — did you know that Jesse Jackson was a speaker at the 1st National Conference on Minority Participation in Earth Sciences? This 1972 USGS event sparked a lot of great work before R’s decided to shut it down. I was surprised when I learned of his participation-maybe you are too.

Black and white photo of Jesse Jackson, taken by Don Carl Stefan in 1972. It is a head and shoulders shot of Jackson, arms crossed and looking over his left shoulder and st something off frame to his left.

Jackson here is a young, black man dressed in a dark, collared shirt, light vest. He has a medium-length Afro and a mustache. He is sporting a button that reads “Ingreso adecuado ahora” which means adequate income now.

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Feb 14

Finished my hat. I’m very happy with how it turned out. Celtic headband first, switched to smaller needles, picked up 84 stitches along one edge, decreased in 5 places, every other row, and finished with an ichord. Going to give my other 2 Melt the ICE hats away.

Photo of a knitted red cap sitting on an oatmeal colored carpet. The hat has a cabled Celtic knot pattern around the rim, and stockinette stitch crown with spiral decreases. It finishes with a short peak and a tassel.

Three knitted red caps arranged in a circle on a white carpet. All three have a peak and a tassel. Two have a wide rib folded back and a flat decrease - in two places, along the side in this view. The third is the cap from the other linked photo.

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Feb 13

Making my own hat pattern. Step 1, a Celtic cable brim. Next, I’ll pick up stitches along the moss stitch edge for the hat body. Still deciding how to decrease and finish it, but it is likely to have a point and a tassel.

Photo of a knitting project resting on my leg. It shows about 8 inches of a cable pattern, intertwined and crossing, about 5 inches wide. The yarn is a few orange-red color. There are two stitch markers on the fabric, used for counting rows.

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Feb 9

It’s far too early for buds to start showing up here in Central Oregon, at 3500 feet, but we have had unseasonably warm weather this month. It will be interesting to see how these trees cope if it gets cold again. Birch and Crabapple. 2/9/26

Small branches of a birch tree showing tiny red buds on the ends, against a bright blue sky.

Branches of a crabapple tree against a blue sky. The tree morphology shows pencil sized branches with clusters of smaller branches coming off of them, and small, white, fuzzy buds on the clusters of smaller branches.

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Jan 29

Given your name, I thought that was why you are taking up knitting. Melt the Ice hat, based on Norwegian resistance to Nazi occupation. It’s an easy one. Pattern here: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Photo of a knitted hat, red, with a pointed top and a tassel. The design is based on a cap that Norwegians made and wore as a symbol of resistance to Nazis. It was so effective that the occupiers banned it.

The pattern was redeveloped as the Melt The Ice Cap, signifying opposition to ICE activities in US cities, specifically (first) Minneapolis.

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Jan 24

For years folks have said they need unrestricted access to guns to protect themselves from the government. Ironically, those folks are more likely to have joined ICE than to be fighting to protect the civil and constitutional rights of their neighbors from reckless, lawless, unrestrained DHS.

Screenshot of a headline from The Independent, a UK newspaper, reading:

ICE shooting latest: Man shot and killed in Minneapolis by federal agents after being wrestled to the ground, police chief confirms

Footage of the incident appeared to show law enforcement officers struggling with a man on the ground before a gunshot is heard.

Byline: Mike Bedigan, Saturday 24 January 2026 17:18 GMT

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Jan 13

Deschutes, Oregon

Photo of a river on a sunny day. There are a few puffy clouds in the sky. The land is semi arid. There are golden grasses in the foreground and on the hills on the opposite bank. There are trees along the river bank, one on this side on the right edge of the photo, and several on the opposite bank.

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Dec 30

My current project is an illusion shawl. Depending on the angle of your view, it could look like stripes, or a pattern emerges. Fun project and a nice gift - she has auburn hair. Pattern is Sunshine Shawl, by Mark Jamieson, available on Ravelry.

Half of a hand knitted shawl, on the needles, sitting on a white carpet. The shawl is triangular. It shows a sunburst in deep reds and oranges with a background in blues and greens.

A closer up view is the same shawl. You can see horizontal stripes of the orange-red and blue-green, but the sunburst pattern is hard to see.

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Dec 4

Making a shawl for my daughter. I was worried these colors were too similar, but I think it will work out. Knitting for Olive Soft Silk Mohair. Lace weight. Red Current and Pink Daisies. Size 4 needles. #knitting

Close-up photo of a square of knitting showing a very fine yarn with a lot of fuzz, and open garter stitches. The bottom half of the work is a deep cherry red. The top half is a bright pink.

Eleanour Snow@docsnow· Nov 29

Also Trump. It’s not about the drugs. I wonder if Venezuela has any oil? (I know the answer, of course.)