Category: Landscape
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Veterans’ Day
We had a hard freeze overnight. Right now, as we approach 11 am, the official temperature is 35F and the wind is whistling along; the windchill is in the mid-20’s. The sun was out earlier but now the sky is overcast. Overnight most of the remaining leaves dropped from our bordering trees. In the comments…
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Veterans’ Day Eve
A wet, calm, densely foggy day, leaves floating ever so slowly down in drifts of colour. Last night we had an intense thunderstorm, lightening rippling across the sky in all directions. The heavy rain stripped most of the leaves from our trees, although a few maples are insistently holding on to colour. I have not…
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Wildlife!
We may have had a freeze overnight; this morning there was frost on the cars and field. Now the sun is glare brilliant and there are thin white clouds beginning to build at the horizon, ahead of this evening’s storm. We still have good colour in the foliage that remains bordering our yard, and the…
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Some Thoughts on Story
A gusty morning following high winds and rain overnight. The shy is clear and the late autumn sun is brilliant. Somehow, many of the trees edging our yard have kept their burnished leaves through all this storminess. I had a lovely streaming conversation with former students, now friends, last night. We caught up with each…
