I thought I’d be experiencing silence on this dark, solstice night. But outside thunder rumbles in the dark, while rain pelts the windows. There will probably be no snow this Christmas. Inside, the Christmas tree – with no lights or trimmings – stands in a corner in the living room. Hanukkah candles offer a small, [...]
More photos! Last night we received about 10 inches of heavy, wet snow. Because the leaves are still on most of the trees, the weight brought down tree limbs. There were a couple of large tree limbs (one oak, one maple) that hit the roof, with many smaller limbs down all around. Brave husband climbed [...]
____________________ A close-up of a yew branch. __________________________ New life emerging below the bushes.
Despite one winter storm after another, including the amazing ice storm we just experienced….. which was sparklingly beautiful, but resulted in power outages and missed trains…… the ice is melting away, falling in percussive chunks onto my studio’s metal roof, and peek-a-boo: green at last! Finding their way through leaves and granular, icy snow, after [...]
Another post from the Dept. of Post-Collapse Studies. The icicle doesn’t fall far from the eave.* Click on the photo below to read the beautiful accompanying blog post. * If you missed it last year, please visit my post about my love of building snow houses as a child.
Some time ago I wrote a post about my love of building snow houses as a child. Magical places! Click on the photo to see a blog where a student has included a snow house in her natural building final project.
Here is a photo of last year’s emerging snowdrops. I took the photo on March 7, 2010. And here is a photo, taken today, of the spot where those snowdrops appeared last March. What do you think? Do they have a chance? Will they continue to sleep beneath the snow and ice until [...]
This pretty much says it all!
