Tag: nature
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New Year’s 2022
This New Year’s morning features fog and light rain, our unseasonable warmth continuing with little cold. This is good in that our heating has been less than dependable. We are due to receive a new heating system tomorrow and tomorrow is forecast to be the coldest day of the winter thus far. Should be interesting.…
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First Flakes
Today is a dank, dark early winter’s day, the kind of day whose cold seeps into one’s very bones. Here and there a few colorful leaves hold fast to otherwise bare branches. Now the conifers truly rule the landscape. A couple of days ago I was deeply engaged in a video conference when a titmouse…
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Wildness
We have had rain and the drought is hopefully broken, finally. After two years of drought it is difficult to believe our community averages over fifty inches of rain a year.
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Late Winter Day
Today has been a classic late winter’s day. There is snow on the ground and the sun casts long shadows through the forest and provides respit from the frosty breeze. Venture back into the shade and the day seems chill indeed. Snow and rain tomorrow, bridging to a mild week.
