Friday, 17 March 2017
We had a couple of cold overnights, cold as in below freezing. The hellebore made it through safely, or mostly okay.
The azalea must be more…delicate, though, as it is rotting.
The problem is that these are flowers and we’ll miss them, but this doesn’t reduce food production.
Wednesday, 15 March 2017
We’re expecting a low of 26°F overnight, and that’s a real drop for the flowers and me. And homeless people cowboy camping…. (Other things, too, I’m sure.)
Sunday, 12 March 2017
Up early, because the time change. And we had a date in Athens. So I had the tube kicking out weather info while the coffee was dripping, and, hello!, snow in north Georgia—more than the dusting I presumed would happen.
Athens…great fun, great colors, terrific stories and laughs. Wonderful.
And now we are home and I am wondering about the new time. So dark right at the moment.
Saturday, 11 March 2017
I’ve been meaning to get out front and photograph the redbud blooms. Wouldn’t you know I’d finally get out there when it was trying to start raining. BTW, this weather is supposed to be snow in the mountains north of us.
Thursday, 2 March 2017
Our weather yesterday evening was rainy and windy, but not awful. We got lucky.
I still didn’t sleep well, though.
This kind of shot is supposed to focus on the bud, and I admit that is what I was trying for, but the rosette of leaves is equally interesting, especially with the backlighting.
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
That line of storms that devastated places to our WNW is coming though now, fingers crossed, as rain. And wind. We’ll see how our blooms and buds do.
Thursday, 23 February 2017
Those white blobs center right and right background are white azalea blooms. Spring is waaaaay too early for the nonce. Mid-70s tomorrow, then the temps are to back down closer to normal. Global warming is climate not weather, but can be observed in weather patterns.
Sunday, 8 January 2017
Here’s a close-up of frost heaving…the water in the soil freezes and expands and the crystals move the soil around, which can affect the disposition of artifacts…. Sunny today, but not much above freezing. I heard melting, but in protected places the evidence of a winter snow/ice event remains.
Photographic proof of the heavier snow load in the north GA mountains…what the neighbors brought back on the roof of their SUV…looks like about four inches…far more than the dusting that happened hereabouts.
Saturday, 7 January 2017
We made it out to the beach for a bit of a stroll. Almost no beachcombers, and few birds….
The last hurricane damaged the pier, and apparently also most of the walkways across the dunes to the beaches. Visitors just walk through the dunes (the walkways were to protect the dunes, so total failure with that maneuver), but this barrier is more robust. We could see that the end of the pier was missing…yup, dangerous out there.
I don’t remember seeing these huge round cotton bales before. Round hay and straw bales, yes. I think these are larger—and far larger than the old hand-picked bales, too!
We found ice still glittering in Atlanta’s trees where it remained protected from Mr. Sun. We found a dusting of snow remaining in our yard, to be sustained overnight with the below-freezing temps predicted for us.
I remembered another pork item from yesterday’s breakfast buffet, bringing the total to nine, seven of meat, and two dishes with some meat added….
