Musings

When it became clear that the winter weather in northeast Georgia had a wet, white zone where the day’s rising temperature meant there was snow but not icy roads…especially if you picked a gravel road. So, we headed toward a pocket like that. Here’s the highest elevation we got to—or near here. We drove in a cloud!

We got out and walked in the icy snow-crystals, while the high branches dripped ice-melt on us. I am intrigued by the linear fracture lines in the twig-wrap ice.

Alternate title: Celebration of our 29th anniversary

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This was the view up this morning when the fog was still thick and daylight was creeping in.

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Rainy, moist day, perfect for leftovers and laziness. We both get “A”s in those!

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Frosty proof. This is the fancy rear window on the Prime; you have some sense of the swale molded into the glass.

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This was the kind of day for staying inside and looking out at the rain. View of downtown, with tall buildings obscured by cloud layer. Therefore, I did get out, but not far and not long.

View of our back garden (yard, to most Americans). I stepped onto the porch to take this, so it wouldn’t have rain-smears like the first image.

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A bit drippy, not quite full rainy, and not really cold-cold…tolerable to close up the cottage for the year.

We agreed that Lake Michigan, with waves pounding on the rip-rap and throwing up spray, and the grey skies above, looked like winter is not far off. [Plus the weather prediction indicated ❄️ for Friday. Yikes!]

Murky skies continued in the Lower Peninsula; then, eventually, it got dark, and we can’t watch the sky any longer. Roads are dry, however….

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We had overcast this morning. All things considered, it wasn’t bad out, just not bright.

Then, the sky cleared and, whew!, lovely. Solar gain even made the porch toasty, so I read out there for a while.

Meanwhile, inside, the wood stove was cranking (there is no slow or super-slow setting), and it was beyond toasty. In a good way.

We even made a quick run to the PO (Amazon Prime in the hinterlands only goes so far—sometimes—and yet sometimes they deliver to the house via brown—a curious variation?), and to the groc store—yoghurt needed!

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I loved the orange at dawn. So clear.

An hour-and-a-half later, it was like a different day, perhaps a different world. A fog (cloud?) set in, and the dawn tints gone, and the color palette diminished.

By mid-afternoon, it was seriously overcast, a solid layer of blue-grey above.

At the beach, well, no beach, and a south wind sending the waves kicking up the leaves that had been floating aimlessly yesterday like poetic dabs on the lake. No more.

And by full dark, it was spitting rain. Sigh.

There’s a saying in these parts along the lines of “if you don’t like the weather, wait five miniutes,” or an hour. This was a day that fit that to a “T.”

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When you find a cycad seasonally decorated by falling leaves, you know…something…perhaps that the seasons turn? the cycad is not in its natural habitat? that more research is needed? Ahhhhhh….

For the record, I make these comments without reverence (or reference) to the fact that officials/decision-makers delayed the start of the MichSt–Mich foooootbl game because of white-stuff*. That’s an official weather category: white-stuff. I want it to go into remission for a couple of weeks. Please.

* Possibly, the reported “white-stuff” might have been rain? I comment from hundreds of miles distant….

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This was the southeast morning sky—sunlight trying to peep through beneath cloud cover…

…and this was the southwest evening sky…but not the same cloud cover. It got sunny for much of the middle of the day, and thus the porch achieved a fine level of solar gain. Time to close it off again, however, as temps are dropping.

We walked down the road a bit and discovered that since we’d been staying “on the place,” we’d missed that a large maple limb fell across the road. Don’t know who chain-sawed it and through the pieces into the ditch, but thanks. Still overcast….

White pine pinecone. Or white pine cone. See, sunny. Kinda.

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