Ramblings from White Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 21st, 2010
Yesterday was the first day of Spring! We celebrated by going on a birding trip south of here, a four plus hour drive, to an area where Sandhill Cranes congregate while on migration. There were flocks of them in the air, calling to each other about weather. flight plans, who has the longest legs, and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 11th, 2010
Just last week spring was here. Granted, no flowers were blooming yet, and for that matter they still aren’t blooming. And then winter snuck up on us again. It has been snowing again off and on all day today, and predicted to continue doing that for the next couple of days. Spring is sneaking up […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 16th, 2010
It’s supposed to be really white outside, with a couple of feet of snow on the ground, perhaps icy on top from recent warm spells. It’s nothing like that this winter. We have at most five inches of snow on the ground, with large bare patches where the sun is the most unobstructed by trees […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 24th, 2010
As the name of this species intimates, it was discovered on the Lewis and Clark expedition across the North American continent in the early 1800’s. These guys live at high elevations, 3,000′ to 13,000′ in the Rockies mainly, and in the higher Cascades. This is a member of the Corvidae family, related to Jays and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2010
The county road by the river is almost completely free to snow and ice, even along the edges, and today was bright, sunny, and not too cold. Time for a walk! Last year we weren’t able to go for walks on the road until March. It’s just an amazingly warm January, and not too snowy […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 17th, 2010
The days are noticeably longer now, almost a month past the Winter Solstice. Of course, we aren’t seeing much sunshine during the day; we’ve been in the clouds or under the clouds for several weeks now. A couple of days ago the clouds went away right as the sun was setting and we got a […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 11th, 2010
In the summer, when it is in the low to mid 90’s outside, and in the house it’s a much cooler 76F, I’ll find myself wearing scandalously skimpy clothing and thinking I’m going to die of heat stroke any second. But put a white landscape outside the house and temperatures well below freezing, crank up […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 4th, 2010
Branches were bare last evening, starkly dark against the white background of the ground and cloudy sky. Things changed overnight. An overwhelming sense of light met our first view of the morning, though the sun had not yet risen. Snow had fallen, adhering to every surface, and has continued to fall all day. A band […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 30th, 2009
Shortly after we woke up this morning, it started to snow, and it has been snowing steadily ever since. Four inches have fallen so far, with no signs of letting up. I can predict the future. Tomorrow Dan will be plowing snow. I have some very ripe bananas which need to be turned into muffins […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 28th, 2009
In a word. Yum.