Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Sometime in the night, I heard the tiny tink-tink of icy snow. As the light arrived, the branches of the trees carried a new outline of white.
However, soon the temps rose, snow left the branches, and surfaces became slushy. Once, I even caught Mr. Sun out (not sure why the clouds appear so dense and grey). Overnight, temps will drop below freezing, to rise once again—to the high 30s, meaning Return of Slush.
Sunday, 5 February 2023
We can call this a great river, at least within its region. It’s the Huron, in southeastern Michigan.
And this is two Great Lakes cleaved by a great bridge…Michigan on the left and Huron on the right, and we’re on the Mackinac Bridge. There’s no Mackinac Lake that I recall.
Snow is drifting across our road. For us, it’s a great road, but you’d probably think it’s just an almost two lane gravel road. We have a lake, over the hill in the distance, and it’s big, and grand, but not—technically—great.
Saturday, 4 February 2023
Sun-up, and we got on the road.
We drove and drove and drove. Then, the sun was dropping against a layer of thin clouds.
And we saw another celestial orb, not to be mistaken for a nosy Chinese balloon.
After dark, we reached the snow zone. Note, however, that the road and sidewalk are totally dry. No problems here…and temps overnight are to hover at freezing; that’s warm for these parts.
Friday, 27 January 2023
Well, now, that looks like spring. Early spring. And it is. Plus, sunset was after 6pm.
Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Last evening’s fog was around all night, then got denser when the sun loomed this morning, and hung around all day. Lotsa fog. This was Monday, a no-fog day.
Friday, 13 January 2023
Our azaleas sport brown, curled leaves after the seventy-ish hours below freezing we had recently. I thought a picture would be too depressing, so here’s a pansy from exactly one year ago. BTW, today’s high was 26° below yesterday’s high of 70°.
Thursday, 12 January 2023
A fast-moving, serious storm came through in the afternoon. We got wind and rain, but not for long. Whew. Far worse, horrible actually, southwest of us in Alabama, and along Atlanta’s southern suburbs. At the moment in this capture, we were through the worst of it (whew!).
Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Feeling genuine? I hope so.
Feeling safe? Hope so, but it’s tough if you’re near the Cali coast.
Wednesday, 4 January 2023
Turns out we got another wave of precip/storm overnight (after yesterday’s post) and through midday. This was at 7:20am. We received enough rain to cause local flooding and general super-moistness. Then, by 2pm, sunshine and gorgeousness.
So, we headed to our favorite international food shopping emporium to peruse a large assortment of plant varieties (while well masked). I found these Win Beans. That’s a typo for winged beans, and winged beans are Psophocarpus tetragonolobus. The whole plant is edible (including roots), and the pods have frilly edges, as you can see. Did not buy (call me chicken?).
Tuesday, 3 January 2023
I saw these colorful blobs this morning. Please note the iridescent blob behind “Roanoke.” The meteorologist interpreted this as a possible tornado touching down, or one forming/ready to do so. In short, scariness.
By the way, the Roanoke is not in Virginia, and the Texas is not that huge state. However, that slanting red line between the two is the state line between Alabama and Georgia.
So this worrisome storm-tracker radar is for the area southwest of us. At the time, the worst of it was moving northeast, toward us, yet the scary blob actually never nailed us. Instead, we received more peripheral storminess than was predicted this morning.