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Monthly Archive for December, 2010

Christmas Day Sunrise

A cold snap is heading our way, below zero overnight is possible this next week.  We’re looking forward to that, actually.  It feels neat! Not exactly how we anticipated starting a Christmas Bird Count today, but we’re very glad this one is ok.  We’ve had a bad week for birds hitting the windows.  We’ve lost […]

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Winter Solstice

Happy Winter Solstice!  Now the days can start getting longer again.  Time to start a new bird list for the new year.  We have all the usual suspects around the house.  It’s always fun to go for a drive and see who we can add to the list first. What’s really funny about this is […]

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Sunrise on the mountains

Winter sunrise today, painting the mountains pink with alpen glow. The clouds were also all pink, little puffballs stretching from one horizon to the other.  They glowed momentarily and then fade to gray or white.

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Sunset and Innocence

December sun sets far to the south and west, through the trees.  We haven’t been seeing much in the way of sunsets this month; lots of cloudy weather at the wrong time of day. Today we had a herd of Pine Siskins in the bird feeder, and a lone Evening Grosbeak was yelling at the […]

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Icicle

I just thought this was pretty, outside the sunroom windows. We were sitting in the room reading, and the sparkle kept catching my eye.

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Orange Rolls

I found a recipe for Cinnamon Rolls on the internet and they were good, so now I’m playing with the recipe. Grease a 9 inch glass pie pan and set it aside; pre-heat oven to 375F. Step one:   Wash and dry an organic Orange, and then finely grate the orange peel, collecting approximately 1 Tablespoon […]

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