Repeat after me…
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.
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Happy Vernal Equinox!
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 – […]
Six weeks until Hummingbirds
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 10th, 2012
Watching snow melt is sort of like watching paint dry… just not as fast. The driveway is a sheet of ice, especially the small hill we have to go down to get to the garage. With a bare touch of the brakes, we can get the Outback going sideways, but fortunately the high snowbanks on […]
Snowing, snowing, snowing
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 21st, 2012
Another five or six inches so far in the last 18 hours, and no sign it is going to stop soon. I always did want to be snowed in. I might be getting my wish!
Two Months ’til Hummers
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 18th, 2012
Really???? It staggers our minds to think in two months there will be wildflowers, green grass, and hummingbirds arriving at our windows and peering in, asking where are their feeders, assuming we don’t get them up ahead of time. Can’t even imagine “green.”
What a difference a day makes
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 7th, 2012
One day it can be snowing, the next day fog moves in and coats everything with frost, and then the fog disappears and sunshine reigns supreme. I saw something very cool on Saturday as I was driving down the hill, just below our house. A cat by the side of the road. Who is […]
Pygmy Owl Came Calling
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 29th, 2012
We hear them calling this time of year, in fact when I went out to take a picture I heard this bird’s partner calling in the distance. And because they hunt in the day time, we get to see them occasionally. Dan spotted this bird in the tree in front of the house. The Chickadees […]
Starting to look like Winter
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 22nd, 2012
Really cold air came down from the north and collided with warmer (relatively), moist air from the west, and we ended up with about five inches of snow. If the forecast is accurate, we should see another two to five inches of snow by tomorrow morning. It’s a good thing we plowed the driveway yesterday. […]
Sunrise Sunset
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 12th, 2012
Swiftly fly the days. Or something like that. Then all day, clear skies and cold. Our solar panels like this sort of weather a lot. Nothing much happened today.
Apple Fritters
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 24th, 2011