Friday, 9 January 2026
I looked at these roses and thought pretty!, as I enjoyed the ombré color graduation. Then, I looked closer and thought, ick!, as I realized they were past their prime and a bit withered.
That’s kinda like today, which began with light overcast that became heavier all day. Finally, rain began somewhere around 6pm initiating full murkiness.
Monday, 5 January 2026
Foggy, foggy this morning.
Sunny afternoon, although this Mahonia is on the shady side of a building.
Tuesday, 30 December 2025
Clear and cold, and getting colder through the day. Nice morning glow, no?
Tuesday, 23 December 2025
This morning we headed out on an errand and I noticed several houses had shrouded shrubs, mostly a white material, but sometimes black. A bit farther along, I noticed another black shroud, but it looked funny, so I looked closer, and discovered it was a covered motorcycle.
Saturday, 20 December 2025
We’ve had lows below freezing recently, and we’re headed for highs in the 70s. Aside from the implications regarding climate change [huuuuge], I’m looking forward to it.
Thursday, 18 December 2025
I was lucky today. We had rain off and on. Without planning, every time I went outside it wasn’t raining.
Monday, 15 December 2025
The promised cold rolled in, yet it wasn’t staggeringly chilly during the daylight hours as the sun did a good job of radiating heat. During darkness, well, that’s a different story.
Sunday, 14 December 2025
This was our day…wind blowing leaves around and dusting the sidewalks with acorns, too.
Here’s an iced stone bench at the Canyon Rim Visitor Center at the New River Gorge last week. It is representing (suggesting? hinting at?) the cold predicted for us for the next few days. A low of 21°F is expected tomorrow morning, even colder with the wind chill. That’s brr, but brrrrrrrrrrr for ATL.
Thursday, 11 December 2025
Snow granules. Indeed, we found snow in Asheville, not enough to be visible anywhere but odd spots like cracks on our car’s body.
We fitted in one more loved-ones stop in SC, and zoomed home, negotiating one last Atlanta traffic slow-down en route.
So glad we went. Turns out that we managed to find the best weather window that there was, although we didn’t know it at the time.
Wednesday, 10 December 2025
I find it always special when I’m rolling along a mountain road and find a pull-off vista-view. Here’s one…
…with snow outlining every little trail and logging road. This is a close-up of that “triangle” on the right side above.
Our tourist stop of the day was at (one part of) New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, in West Virginia. We first saw the gorge from these windows in the Canyon Rim Visitor Center.
Truly a gorgeous gorge—even with rain starting to fall.
Here’s the high bridge crossing the gorge…
…and here’s the high bridge from the low bridge, which is the one we crossed.
The rest of the day was rain, never a blinding storm, but constant, mile after mile. We hear that we may awaken to snow tomorrow here in Asheville, despite being so much farther south than the southern Lake Erie shore.