Winter wonderland in Robin's Wood
Here you see can the storm that we had last Tuesday just leaving Virginia today. Our Wednesday storm is hitting the Great Lakes followed by the Thurs, Fri and Sat storms which hit California harder than us. The blob in the Pacific Ocean is just coming ashore as we speak - and it's our first snow of the year?
We've decided to go Mexican and leave our Christmas lights up on the front veranda all year. No one can see the house anyway as it's a half a mile from the road. Actually we'll take them down when the clock springs forward because there's no sense in leaving them up in summer when the sun doesn't set until 10 pm.
Yesterday we went down to the beach to breathe some ozone to kill off the germs that have given us all lousy colds. This was during a break between downpours of hail and/or rain. We had to come home when a thunderstorm started approaching off the Pacific and the lighting got too close for comfort.
Don't you hate it when people snap your picture just when you're pulling an ugly face? I had an excuse: the wind was blowing 60 mph and I had sand in my eye. Behind me you can see the logs that were washed up by the high tide earlier that day.
One of the pieces of driftwood looked a bit like a whale (or maybe a parrot) and we wished we'd brought the chainsaw to cut its "head" off for one of our "natural sculptures" in the garden.
Of course the ducks love this weather. Here the mallards, Dolly and Dally, are dabbling in the little seasonal creek that flows behind the chicken-coop in winter while the black-runner, Dilly, forages in the grass with some hens.
This is what the sun looked like at 4pm yesterday - just before sunset. It's what the locals call "liquid sunshine." The end of another perfect day in paradise.
PS I was about to pop out and take pictures of the snowfall but it only snowed about an inch and sadly it's already melting because it's 33F. At least the storm is making the ocean roar. It sounds like the waves are breaking just outside my bedroom window.
We've decided to go Mexican and leave our Christmas lights up on the front veranda all year. No one can see the house anyway as it's a half a mile from the road. Actually we'll take them down when the clock springs forward because there's no sense in leaving them up in summer when the sun doesn't set until 10 pm.
Yesterday we went down to the beach to breathe some ozone to kill off the germs that have given us all lousy colds. This was during a break between downpours of hail and/or rain. We had to come home when a thunderstorm started approaching off the Pacific and the lighting got too close for comfort.
Don't you hate it when people snap your picture just when you're pulling an ugly face? I had an excuse: the wind was blowing 60 mph and I had sand in my eye. Behind me you can see the logs that were washed up by the high tide earlier that day.
One of the pieces of driftwood looked a bit like a whale (or maybe a parrot) and we wished we'd brought the chainsaw to cut its "head" off for one of our "natural sculptures" in the garden.
Of course the ducks love this weather. Here the mallards, Dolly and Dally, are dabbling in the little seasonal creek that flows behind the chicken-coop in winter while the black-runner, Dilly, forages in the grass with some hens.
This is what the sun looked like at 4pm yesterday - just before sunset. It's what the locals call "liquid sunshine." The end of another perfect day in paradise.
PS I was about to pop out and take pictures of the snowfall but it only snowed about an inch and sadly it's already melting because it's 33F. At least the storm is making the ocean roar. It sounds like the waves are breaking just outside my bedroom window.
posted by Joubert at 8:59 AM
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