Tuesday, 30 March 2010
We had such a nice day today, it’s hard to imagine the rain they’re getting in the NE*.
My suspicion is that we’ll breeze through the early spring. Already it seems like it’s moving quickly. Time to get some plants? I need more herbs this year, to go with the ‘maters & peppers….
* No garbage-bag raincoats/pants here….
Monday, 22 March 2010
We traversed a big swath of Appalachia today, from central Ohio to West Virgina, a corner of Virginia, and across North Carolina. At higher elevations, the rain we found intermittently became wet flakes, and the windshield wipers were slapping time…. Thankfully the mild squeak in one blade didn’t begin until the last fifty miles, when I was napping (actually, sleeping soundly, I admit!) and the Guru was piloting….
Thursday, 18 March 2010
We very much enjoyed a yard-tour in the sun, although most of the plants reveal that spring is merely on the cusp of arriving.
Meteorologists predict we should await more frozen precip in the near future….
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
From fall 2007, out west—not here, today.
Off and on today, I forced myself into an anti-gloom mood, although the rain beating on the roof tended to draw me back to that place….
Apparently at least one variation of the phrase “nice weather for ducks” (this is my dad’s version) dates back to the early nineteenth century and was used by Dickens in 1840….
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
I suspect you’re probably bored with hearing about rainfall patterns, but I have one more comment: Australia has been in a drought—dry, dusty, drought. Lately, though: rain. Lots of it some places.
Around here: sunny this morning…overcast by late afternoon. Rain, They Say, incoming in the wee hours—just in time for Garbage Day.
Saturday, 6 March 2010
I’m back to being hopeful about spring’s arrival. Mostly, I’m enjoying sunny days like this one….
In the meantime, I think I need to extract a stumplet from the verge sometime in the next week (redbud that the tree took out)—because we ordered a bare-root almond tree for that spot…. Oh, fun.
Friday, 5 March 2010
I really noticed the increased daylength today, and the low-angle pre-sunset twilight that is becoming prolonged, although not to summertime durations.
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Here’s more evidence that spring is running later this year than in the recent past. This Japanese magnolia (Magnolia liliiflora) is from this day, three springs back.
Once again (sorry for the preaching): climate is not weather.
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
On this day two years ago, it was a weekend and we hiked on Johns Mountain, in northwest Georgia.
The day was sunny, and we basked in it.
Today is much different. We tackled weekday chores. We watched huge wet snowflakes come down for hours under a grey sky. We also watched the flakes clump on the grass, and melt on the street.
Overnight it will freeze, I’m sure, and we just hope that the electricity doesn’t fail. (Brrr!)
I’m sure that the view from Johns Mountain today is not this green…even under the white.
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
I just put this together—the info was right under my nose: best man at my mother’s first cousin’s wedding was Thomas Lanier Williams*.
And you know I’m not a name-dropper.
Of course, probably to a lot of folks, TW is not much of a name to drop….
* You may recognize his nickname, Tennessee.