{"id":5876,"date":"2024-01-20T18:31:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T18:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=5876"},"modified":"2024-01-20T18:36:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T18:36:20","slug":"snow-and-sunsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=5876","title":{"rendered":"Snow and Sunsets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Winter arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This qualifies as brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, on January 13th. The lowest temperature was on this morning; the other morning it was a more moderate -12F, -10F, -6F, and another -10F. Heat waves!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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January 6th it turned white again. Yay!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Frosting on the trees and ground, just a few inches but the transformation of the world is always dramatic when it turns white.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately for us, we had gotten these few inches of snow before the bottom dropped out of the temperatures and we are hopeful the strawberry plants had enough cover that this low temperature didn’t kill the plants. We will know for sure in a few months, right about the beginning of April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also had frozen water pipes during the cold spell which made for very unhappy people and critters who couldn’t have cared less (parrot and cat). On the contrary, Mish has been delighted in the current turn of events as we have had to leave the door open in the bedroom and so he can come in and keep us company as the mood takes him. Fortunately for us, the living room is much warmer and like all cats Mish gravitates towards the heat, leaving us in peace to sleep until morning when it’s time to feed the cat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then it warmed up a bit and on the 17th we got some more snow, about six inches of the lovely fluffy stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As usual when it’s snowing, the mountains to the east no longer exist. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The world looks soft and fuzzy when it snows. Love it! The smell of fresh snow is refreshing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We got our driveway plowed after these six inches were added to the several from the week before. Then it snowed again. Yay! This much snow down where we are means lots of it up high in the mountains where it needs to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lots of big snowflakes and during the day too, so we could enjoy watching the weather doing its thing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our outdoor bird buddies are delighted with the seeds and suet, especially in these conditions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We are seeing a couple of Song Sparrows hanging around this winter. They look like a ball with a head and tail stuck on the ends, they are so fluffed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shoveling the path from the front door, we now have a good foot of snow on the ground, and all the raised beds in the garden are gone from view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Monday the 15th we had a really beautiful sunset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The whole world was pink and purple for several minutes. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A sliver of a moon glowed in the sky, high overhead.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Keeping myself entertained means lots of baking stuff recently; sweet rolls, chocolate chip cookies, cheese cushions, and bread. And I finally got around to drawing an owl which has been in my head for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Great Grey Owl.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We saw these in Alaska and up on White Mountain. They are one of our most favorite owls, next to Snowy Owls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today is more baking, though I haven’t decided what yet, and working on my next drawing, a Gyrfalcon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winter time is so lovely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Winter arrived. Fortunately for us, we had gotten these few inches of snow before the bottom dropped out of the temperatures and we are hopeful the strawberry plants had enough cover that this low temperature didn’t kill the plants. We will know for sure in a few months, right about the beginning of April. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5876"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5898,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876\/revisions\/5898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}