Musings

We motored east sometimes close to Lake Erie, sometimes a few miles inland, and finally saw Cleveland in the distance.

Over on the east side, we met up with a college buddy of The Guru at a lovely Thai restaurant. My dish: Siam salmon…salmon wrapped in a napa cabbage leaf with veg and a rich yellow curry sauce. Oh, just yum. Perfect. Thanks, FK.

We continued east, still under the lake effect smear, and, while in Amish territory dodging horse-drawn buggies, spotted this pair of planes that looked to me as if they were slowly degrading. I did not see a for-sale sign.

Then we turned south, and outran the snow-smear, and are now on the PA side of the OH/PA line, enjoying temps just a smidge above freezing. We understand that a winter storm is headed this way tomorrow. Hopefully, we’ll be out of here before it ramps up.

Posted at 9:38 PM | Comments Off on Lake Erie environs

It started snowing sometime when it was still dark, big lazy flakes, and kept it up almost until noon. In the background, you can tell our host was busy with the snowblower, cleaning sidewalks and driveway. And a parking spot by the curb for us. Thoughtful man.

It was NOT froggy weather.

Posted at 9:21 PM | Comments Off on White stuff

Sometimes the wild blue yonder is really shades of blue, or perhaps grey-blue if you’re picky.

We’re northbound, after a snow-storm, which is a better time than during the storm. Duh. This is a northern Kentucky rest area.

Full moon rising over Cincinnati.

And, by the time we got to the outer Cincinnati suburbs: demurely hiding moon. If anthropomorphizing is permitted.

We did see about five minutes of wan sunshine, and a few minutes of snow blowing across the pavement, but otherwise: dry roads, yay.

Posted at 9:09 PM | Comments Off on Monitoring situations

The rain we got and the rain that’s predicted surely will knock back our drought situation.

Posted at 8:22 PM | Comments Off on Precip

All meteorological reports this morning indicated it was foggy out. Here’s proof!

Posted at 8:10 PM | Comments Off on Ground truthing

Fine weather today. Not meaning to rub it in if you have had stressful weather, but I’m much happier with our high of 66°F.

Posted at 8:53 PM | Comments Off on Ho-dee-ho-ho

Ooops. Forgot this poor plant gifted to me months ago. It’s been on its own mostly since. It’s inside now.

This one, on the other hand, is right out in the midst of the Snap, surviving nicely (so far).

Posted at 6:56 PM | Comments Off on Snap

Boy-o-boy have we had clear and brilliant moon-lit nights lately. I hear we’re headed for a cold snap next week, as in below freezing. Yikes.

Posted at 6:54 PM | Comments Off on ATL conditions

We had rain all day, but it’s finally stopped. I haven’t seen the figures on how much these several days of on-off precip have reduced our drought.

Posted at 7:50 PM | Comments Off on Murky again

We got rain off and on all day—mostly drippy rain, the kind that soaks in nicely…which is great because in this area we have a serious deficit that needs remedying.

I include this picture of the Guggenheim museum from last winter, the one in Bilbao. This is day two of our visit, when we walked around outdoors on a gorgeous sunny day. Day one was rainy, and so we went in the museum and looked out rain-streaked windows and soaked in artsiness.

Posted at 8:16 PM | Comments Off on Drizzle vs dry