Ramblings from White Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14th, 2012
A beautiful day to head south for a day trip, picnic, and see what new birds have migrated this way. I still remember the first time I ever saw these. We were driving past a field of corn stubble when the entire field rose into the air, hundreds of Yellow-headed Blackbirds swirling around, flashing yellow, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6th, 2012
The concrete paver walkway in the center of the garden is completed, except for cleaning off the pavers and brushing in the paver sand which fills the joints and locks everything in place. Maybe today while the contractor is here I’ll go do that. This is actually a good thing, to have this slope running […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 28th, 2012
Today we spread most of the landscaping cloth and almost all the bags of bark mulch. Roughly three fourths of the garden has been mulched now. The kids were back today and they did so much work, it was simply amazing. Strawberry plants are set in the first bed in this picture, and in the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 24th, 2012
The excavator driver called this morning and said he would be here at 10 am or a bit later. So when he showed up at 9:30 am, we weren’t exactly ready. Didn’t take long to throw on jeans, heavy shirt, and hat. Dan hauled loads down to the garden site; the heavy equipment dumped it […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 22nd, 2012
Friday morning, bright and early, we woke up to a Great Gray Owl sitting on our garden fence. Looking for mices. Good birdie!!!! The first thing Spring means is birdwatching. Yesterday we took a drive down to the southern edge of the county in which we live (we’re at the far northern border). Saw a […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 8th, 2012
The stormy weather we’ve had so far this month has given us some really pretty skies right as the sun dips below the horizon. The temperatures keep dropping down in the low to mid 20’s, and then into the 40’s during the day, to go with rain and snow, depending on the time of day. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2012
Obviously, Snowshoe Hares have a lot of influence over the weather gods.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2012
Some of us are happy about it. Some of us aren’t.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 22nd, 2012
A Varied Thrush showed up yesterday. Today he’s probably 150 miles south of here thinking… that was fun.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 20th, 2012
First day of Spring! Tra-la comes to mind. Now maybe it will stop snowing. At least it doesn’t stick around very long. Spring migrants have been returning to the mountain and in the valley by the river. Mountain Bluebird, Western Bluebird, Spotted Towhee, Western Meadowlark (or as Dan likes to call them, Giant Junco – […]