Friday, 7 January 2011
The paperwhites are full out,* a bit of an antidote to the wintery mix I keep hearing may well be headed our way—although various professional sources differ on how likely we are to get this in OUR neighborhood.
* Yes, I know I mentioned them yesterday, but they’re so luscious….
Tuesday, 28 December 2010
I admit it; this is from the most-snowfall-day, not today. Still, I wanted to pass on the wry humor of our HVAC—which we mostly think of as AC—more-than-dusted with snow.
Sunday, 26 December 2010
The freezing overnight is thawing before mid-day (our street is now drying and no longer icy), yet decorative snow-elements remain—for a while, anyway, as the winds are kicking up*….
* Hate that; wind can make trees fall….
Saturday, 25 December 2010
In our neighborhood, the snowfall began before dark—big, wet flakes plopping down, melting on the road, staying on the azaleas and grass. Mid-evening, it’s still accumulating, but not freezing here. (The “yet” is implied….) To the north, I’m hoping people are deciding to stay or go before the temps drop farther.
Tuesday, 21 December 2010
Spending time in the desert, or a desert city, during a rainy spell (even if it lasts for your entire visit, pretty much) is special.
Here’s the view across San Diego‘s airport and bay, with Coronado in the background.
This is beyond the fabled marine layer, and truly socked in, unless socked in means the airport was closed. It wasn’t, and we left only a few minutes late.
Home, sweet home.
Sunday, 19 December 2010
I’m living under the influence of a pineapple express. Rain, mist, and general cool spitty unpleasantness.
So we stayed in a watched a DVD movie and monitored the wifi for irregularities—slow-downs and short stoppages that the router did not cause.
Sedate Sundays can be The Best!
Thursday, 16 December 2010
The Arum maculatum made it through the winter weather, when it spent a while utterly limp and nearly flattened. Last night we skated without skates trekking in and out of the driveway to enjoy a fantastic low country boil (with rich cookies for dessert) at F&D’s (thanks, again!), but by about 9 am the temps started rising and we de-iced.
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
This is a shrub in our front yard, name unknown to me. Of course these are blue (colored) berries, and not blueberries, yet still pretty.
Although our temps did get above freezing today, they’re dipping again, and it was never sunny-nice out.
Monday, 13 December 2010
Our temps never reached the freeze point today, and we’re expecting lows in the low teens. So: Brrrr!
Wonder how the ABG fountains are faring—this was the other day when this bubbly specimen managed to escape the freezing fingers of Mother Nature….
Sunday, 12 December 2010
Snow decorating Arum maculatum, before aeolian processes flipped it away.
Our weather turned today, with wind (big wind—advisories across most of the state, with gusts over 30 mph), and even snow—although the meteorologists this morning said the latter wouldn’t get to this part of the city—hah!
I know there’s the post-solstice astronomical winter (which has not yet arrived), but there’s also winter (or other seasons) as defined by the weather—the poetic delineation, perhaps? And we’re now enmeshed in winter here in the Sunny South (only a very few glancing flirts with sunshine today), given the flurries, low temps, bitter winds, and the like (brr!).