Warming week
Monday, 16 February 2026
A lovely dawn-sky…
…heralded a sunny day.
Musings
Pollen!
Friday, 6 February 2026
Plants can be so resilient! These perked right up and got to the business of being a successful plant (flowering, seed creation), toot-sweet after the last two weekends of distinctly winter weather.
Yellow gold
Thursday, 5 February 2026
Now that the ice storm and the snow storm have passed, budding has begun.
Cold & windy; not snowy
Saturday, 31 January 2026
The meteorologists’ models got the wind and the cold right, but our neighborhood only received a slight dusting, not nearly a ½ inch.
After the sun faded, I noticed an owl (pretty sure) hanging out near our back door. My theory is that it is perched lower than usual to avoid some of the wind.
43°F walk
Thursday, 29 January 2026
One more time…the sky reveals the sun is coming.
On my afternoon walk, I saw firefolk doing…something. When I came by on my return loop, the guy in training was. carrying and dragging quite a bit of hose, and the other guy was walking behind instructing and commanding. That hose seems darned heavy, even without being charged with water, which is darned heavy also.
So glad it was sunny
Tuesday, 27 January 2026
The pre-dawn looked lovely, with a nice smear of yellow.
Not so lovely, the temp, and we’re not even discussing the much lower feels-like.
Camellia micro-eco-story
Sunday, 25 January 2026
Ice is today’s headline. That means rain plus freezing temps. And the supercold (super = wayyyyy below freezing) rolls in overnight, and will linger for days, a week, maybe more. That’s an uber-cold-snap in these parts.
So far, we’re okay here, and very lucky, IMHO, as we still have electricity and internet and phone services.
To snowman, or not to…
Friday, 23 January 2026
This was the last time we had pretty sunshine. Today, our mayor said “you’re not going to be able to snowman” because this is an ice storm. Yeah, ice and snow, neither are common here in ATL.