Winter
No spring flowers for St David’s Day?
No spring flowers opened in time for St David’s Day yesterday. But these two are getting ready:
We do still have some winter flowers in bloom:
Sun rose again today
Sunrise 25 January 2013
I know it’s a bit blurry. So was I.
House Lights Up
We replaced the incandescent icicles with LEDs (too many duds and half-lit strings), but miss the warm glow of the old kind and wish these weren’t so blue.
Presidents’ Day
Our second major snowfall this winter, twice what we had in January.
About an inch, Sunday evening, just in time for the Presidents’ Day holiday.
A walk in the park
Five miles on the trail from Oak Ridge to the Mawavi Road bridge and back in Prince William National Park on Saturday afternoon. Mostly sunny, about 60 degrees.
Half-inch of snow last night . . .
. . . but not much left by 10:30 this morning. Went for a run in shorts and t-shirt about 3:30, when it was 50 degrees. Perhaps winter hasn’t really got started yet.
Charlie H with his new snowblower
Clearing our driveway 27 January. We had 3½” but much of the rest of the east coast got much more. Erin had a foot packed against her door in Philadelphia.
Total lunar eclipse on the winter solstice…
| as seen 2:39am 21 December 2010, through a hazy sky over Stafford, Virginia. Click the pic to enlarge. Also here’s a link to some pictures on the BBC website. |
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