Ramblings from White Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 21st, 2010
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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 15th, 2010
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.
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 6th, 2010
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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 4th, 2010
I just thought this was pretty, outside the sunroom windows. We were sitting in the room reading, and the sparkle kept catching my eye.
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 4th, 2010
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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 28th, 2010
Three weeks away from the Winter Solstice, the shadow cast by the mountain above us creeps farther into the morning hours. I love this time of year, when the contrast between light and dark is dramatic. The heavy cloud cover of the past several days seems like it is breaking up a bit, and that […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 27th, 2010
But not too often, or the consequences could get bad!
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 23rd, 2010
A very cold wave of air slid south, colliding with warmer moist air sliding west, and the result was snow. Not a lot of snow, only six inches, but it isn’t going away anytime in the near future. Filling the wood rack was Dan’s main project for today, keeping the house warm. Early this morning […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 18th, 2010
The first real snowfall for winter melted. That was our cue to hurry up and get all the rest of our outdoor chores completed. We scattered the remainder of the grass seeds in areas where the grass we planted didn’t take, but weeds did! The chipmunks are all sleepy-bye now and the seeds will have […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 13th, 2010
It has been an extremely uneventful week or so, just the way we like it. Mostly we’ve been watching the few remaining leaves falling, and waiting for snow to fall. We’d seen a few flakes falling, but couldn’t really say it was snowing, just ‘flaking.’ I’m really hoping for heavy snowfall this year. I still […]