Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

About This Winter

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Only dustings of snow. Only brief intermittent frozen rains here, not enough to endanger us (downstate was a different story). It's as...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Spring Afternoon, Winter Morning

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Woke at 5:30 a.m. to clomping noises on the roof. It’s still dark. Maybe the roofers, who were said to be coming to work on the cab...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Seasonal Fuzziness

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Warm until February; snow and sleet in March: "Seasonal fuzziness" is what it's called by a Missouri Department of Conservat...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Ticks Don't Die

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Planned to list here the good things about a snowy subzero winter, and the first thing I thought was that a hard winter kills ticks so sum...
Monday, March 25, 2013

Hungry Pileated Woodpecker

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This male Pileated was hungry enough, in the seven inches of yesterday's snow, to allow me to stand in the open porch door and take hi...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

Snacking on Snowballs

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The other day having coffee with a friend I denied myself a pastry from the shop's lovely pastry case and later wondered what kind of ...
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Saturday, March 26, 2011

March 26 in Missouri

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They say here, "If you don't like the weather, wait 24 hours, and you'll see how good it was." Hamster-sized snowflakes fe...
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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Neighborly

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The other house on the Divine property has stood empty for as long as two and a half years while seeking a tenant who can appreciate its qua...
Friday, January 14, 2011

A Little Snow

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We've had three snows so far, the deepest three inches just the other day. In eastern Missouri these are called "snowstorms," ...
Monday, January 3, 2011

This Will Fry Your Brain

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Burning the excess brush cut down on Christmas day (pictured), I thought, "a bonfire." Then I wondered, "What's the diffe...
Monday, December 27, 2010

See My Christmas Present

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See the overgrown brush? I'd planned on hacking at it two hours a day for four months until I cleared it. (See entry "My Machete,...
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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Not at Home

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Downtown in the big city at the Fox Theatre to see Ballet Folklorico de Mexico. When I came out abt ten thirty p.m. it was snowing. As I dro...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Letter in the Snow

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Before holing up for a winter night I take the bird feeder and suet cage onto the porch, or else I'll be woken up later hearing fuss and...
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Sunday, January 3, 2010

Jack Frost Lives!

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Jack Frost's icy renderings of trees rival those visible through the window in this photo -- taken in the garage, which has single-pane ...
Friday, December 25, 2009

Merry Messenger

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This pileated woodpecker was swooping around the house at 8 a.m., joyfully screaming, "Wake up everyone for a mile radius! It's Chr...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Snowstorm at Night

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Snow last night and today made it nearly impossible to get out of here; I tried but the snow packed my tires like wet sugar. So I turned bac...
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Friday, January 23, 2009

Frosty Morning

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I'd dislike January if I didn't get divine gifts for my birthday, like this one: A frosty morning. I got a morning, imagine that. Th...
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Sunday, November 30, 2008

Season's First Snow

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Did those bluebirds know something? That it would snow overnight? About an inch of it. Was just out takin' 110 pictures. This, my favori...
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Friday, February 1, 2008

Did We Dream This?

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Took this at 9:00 a.m. 100 yards up the road.