Everything is wet outdoors
Saturday, 24 November 2018
Rainy, moist day, perfect for leftovers and laziness. We both get “A”s in those!
Musings
Cold morn
Thursday, 22 November 2018
Frosty proof. This is the fancy rear window on the Prime; you have some sense of the swale molded into the glass.
Looking out
Monday, 12 November 2018
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.
Big transition
Monday, 5 November 2018
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….
A fine day
Saturday, 3 November 2018
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!
Wait five minutes
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
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.”
Pretty please
Saturday, 20 October 2018
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….
Sky to the south
Sunday, 23 September 2018
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.
Photo pretties
Saturday, 22 September 2018
Still this morning after the turbulence of the last two days. The caulk fix the Guru implemented on the rain barrel is holding!
Not yet seeing milkweed seeds floating around, as the pods are still desicating.
Found this bold lichen on the neighbors’ gate. Tough surface, but a bit sheltered.
The afternoon sun warmed the porch to the mid-70s, warm enough to dine here. Outdoors the temp dropping fast toward an overnight low in the upper 40s.
Wild weather
Friday, 21 September 2018
Yesterday was rain rain rain, and the wind kicked up overnight—woke us up kind of wind. That kind of wind sure makes us edgy!
By morning the rain/wind had slacked off (mostly), and there was a kinda normal several hours (glorious sky; see photo), as the temperatures rose to the highest point maybe by 11am. Then the wind kicked up and the temps have been dropping to a predicted overnight low at maybe 7am breaking 40°F. The wind wind wind means there are small branches down under all the trees and a live maple branch came down at the neighbors’, narrowly missing a pickup. Safe!
Sad story of life: the raccoons have somehow raided the last of the corn (less than a dozen ears, I think) in the same neighbors’ garden. We people got almost all of it, however. 😋