Wednesday, 17 January 2018
It seems to me I used to say we get snow every other year or so here in ATL…our neighborhood anyway. Not this winter…we’re on our second pretty-much-cover-the-grass snowfall. We had a bit more this morning when the snow stopped, but all day it stayed cold—and shady in this location—so the white stuff is hanging around. For now.
Tuesday, 16 January 2018
Late post so I can report, yes: cold, and yes: white stuff. We had less wintery weather in DC!
Official snow-in-progress photo by the Guru.
Thursday, 4 January 2018
It certainly is strange weather when Tallahassee and Savannah and Charleston get snow, and we in ATL get cold, yes, and wind, yes, but no white stuff.
Tuesday, 2 January 2018
The Guru went out with me to gain our vitamin D. The foot was feeling pretty good, so we went farther afield, and found this tree, which has outgrown the space allotted to it during the last landscaping, some time back. Trees are powerful!
Farther along, we discovered that someone forgot to turn off their sprinklers.
And another homeowner kept the fish-pond oxygenating, creating ice balls and other glazed shapes.
Friday, 29 December 2017
Very glad for the sunlight, as the cold-cold is headed our way…headed toward much of NorthAmerica, I think.
Among our errands, we stopped for our last phở of 2017. Yum.
Monday, 18 December 2017
Misty this morning. I think a character said that phrase on the first episode of “The Crown.” That’s what we started binge-watching. And not because we also had a misty morning.
I couldn’t take a better picture (get a better angle) on this yard-art unless I stepped in the flower bed. So this is my offering.
I took advantage of the morning fog and grabbed my walking sticks and headed out, looking for a bit more up-and-down than I’ve been doing…to work just a bit on endurance. Of course, any work constitutes making progress for me these days.
Saturday, 16 December 2017
I was getting ready to walk, and checked the out-the-window weather…hmm, temps about the same as yesterday, sunniness about the same…wind? Nope, not today! I skipped one layer I wore yesterday, and I made the right choice! Poi-fect!
Friday, 15 December 2017
I futzed around getting ready for my walk. I checked the temp and thought sunny and low 40s, hmm, I’ll try my long-sleeved inner layer with a t-shirt top. Then I stepped outside. Ooops. My visual inspection didn’t identify the wind.
I slipped back indoors and added my fleece.
Smart move. It really didn’t feel very warm until I’d been striding for a while and was on a stretch where buildings and topography blocked the wind. Then, I had to drop the fleece off my shoulders!
And despite our recent bud-nipping temps (and the S), this rhododendron (in a sheltered location) is pushing out new, healthy buds!
Tuesday, 12 December 2017
This morning the oregano was partly covered by the S, but this afternoon, not so much. Temps are up(ish) now, but will be dropping a bit again later in the week.
I spotted this and thought it was an artsy coffeepot birdhouse. But I’m human. A bird might think this is an architectural abomination, and flit on to another location for nesting.
Monday, 11 December 2017
Sunny today, but cool enough that shady places kept their snow accumulations. Places like our yard. And driveway. The Guru kept after the driveway, and now it’s wet and not icy. And overnight temps are not predicted to go below freezing.
I did get out for a fine walk, not especially ambitious, but a good one. Sometimes with seasonal decorations.