Musings

Or, more accurately, I blahgged too soon.

Alternatively, now that it’s March, winter is back, even here in the Sunny South.

Update: thunder snow!

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The sun-angle is changing. I have hope for summer’s arrival.

Posted at 10:22 PM | 1 Comment »

You can’t see them waving, but they are.

You’re looking at the tops of the trees in our backyard at 6 pm. Storm warnings. Wind warnings.

Sure makes me nervous!

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Egad, this part of the Midwest is flat.

Last week I participated in a side trip to the Phyllis Haehnle Memorial Audubon Sanctuary, northeast of Jackson, which is a well-known resting place for whooping cranes during their migrations. The terrain is pretty flat, although we stood on an overlook above the marsh that attracts the whoopers, and I didn’t think any of the pictures I took looked particularly lively or interesting.

I just flipped through them again, and wondered if this bench, awaiting birders with its slowly melting cap of snow, might serve as a visual metaphor for…I dunno, life? love? lasagne?

You pick….

Posted at 7:36 PM | 3 Comments »

That’s 1.5°F (or a bit more) below zero! Brrrrrrr.

When the thermometer looks like this, and you’ve been living in the Sunny South for decades, you figure: it’s about time to hit the road. Southbound….

…and we capped off the day with a lovely dinner—mmmm, bean soup in winter, mmmm, the best!—with friends in Lexington kay-why, where we saw limbs down all over, although the destructive ice we photoed northbound is now melted.

Posted at 10:22 PM | Comments Off on Below zero

This is the day I discovered that my thinsulate gloves are excellent for Georgia cold, yet hardly put a dent in temps below 10°F. Good thing it was sunny and I didn’t have to stay out long!—only 1–2″ of fresh snow to get off the driveway….

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Can you see the splits where limbs have separated?

Driving north on I-75, and seeing the amazing destruction wrought by the ice encrusting the vegetation across Kentucky—and we’re far east of the places we saw on the news. This was a big, bad storm!

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I took a back way north from the Macon area towards Atlanta, and was gratified to see the creeks had been swollen, even though they look both scrubbed and a bit messy in the aftermath. These days, more water is quite good news.

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Okay, it’s not very thick, but still, ice on the lake in mid-afternoon on a sunny day in Atlanta—brrrr!

Posted at 4:03 PM | Comments Off on We’ve got ice!

Cypress knees are odd plant forms—function not quite nailed down….

This afternoon: sunny, pleasant.

This morning: rainy, overcast, grey.

Yesterday afternoon included fifteen minutes of snow flurries. No lie!

Posted at 4:29 PM | 1 Comment »