It has snowed every night for the past week but only a few inches at a time. We often get more snow (or rain) later in the day, but every morning when I get up, the ground and the deck… Read More ›
Weather
BIRDS BEFORE THE RAIN
There has been a wild surge of bird activity lately. I don’t know if it’s because of the lack of rain or just the time of year, but many birds have come and hung about. Today was catbird day. Of… Read More ›
RAIN AND FALLING TREE LIMBS
It’s really raining. I has been raining very steadily since yesterday morning and it’s raining even harder now. Not much wind, but I guess all that water in the dying tree back behind the deck has made the branches heavier… Read More ›
SHARING IN THE RAIN
Share Your World 6th of September It is raining. Not a sprinkle. Not a quick cloudburst. Real rain starting quite early and continuing. It was raining hard earlier and is now raining steadily, but not “tropical.” The rain is supposed to… Read More ›
SUNFLOWERS
FOTD – August 26 – Sunflowers Today the sunflowers pass from floral decorations to food for the birds and other seed-loving creatures of hedge and bough. They have gone to a better place. I’m pretty sure that they were what… Read More ›
IT RAINED AGAIN!
Share Your World – 24th of August Pensitivity101 is continuing to fill in for (I hope) a recuperating Melanie. Get well, Melanie. We miss you! It rained today. It’s not the end of the drought, but it was a big help…. Read More ›
KEEP YOUR SUNNY SIDE UP
FOTD – August 21 – Sunnyside Up! We had nearly 10 minutes of rain today. I heard the thunder rolling and I thought “Rain maybe?” I have learned through the bitter experience of this long dry summer that all the… Read More ›
ALL THE BIRDS
There were so many birds on the deck today. There had to be at least a dozen different species — and there were at least two species of squirrel and a couple of chipmunks, too. And let’s not forget the… Read More ›
THE CHANGING SEASON – JULY 2022
The Changing Season, July 2022 – SERENDIPITY Seeking Intelligent Life On Earth Remarkably we have somehow avoided getting COVID. Maybe it was all those vaccinations. Both Garry and I have each had four. Owen needs a booster and I hope… Read More ›
SUPER HOT. BONE-DRY. NO WI-FI.
I spent the first couple of hours of my day trying to post pictures for one of Cee’s photo challenges. Each time I got it almost finished, I’d save it and it would hang. The wi-fi appeared to be on,… Read More ›
CLIMATE CHANGES ARE HERE. NOW.
It’s hot. Not only is it hot here, it’s hot everywhere including normally cool places like London and many European countries. Looking at a weather map, it looked like the world is boiling over. Probably a reasonably accurate description of… Read More ›
WHERE OH WHERE?
Fandango’s Provocative Question #173 Garry and I went through this process a decade ago when we were thinking about selling and moving. We looked all over the map — not then considering other countries — and realized despite winter, we’d rather… Read More ›
SHARING MY WORLD – APRIL 2022
Share Your World 4-12-2022 – Tena Carr, Guest Host Today is the first morning in more than a week when I’ve gotten up to see a blue sky and sunshine. Even when it hasn’t rained, it has been cloudy and… Read More ›
OH THE WEATHER OUTSIDE
This morning, in a single hour, everything our weather can do this time of year happened. I got up and asked Garry to put out some food for the birds. I changed my mind because I heard thunder and then,… Read More ›
CHANGING SEASONS – MARCH 2022
The Changing Seasons, March 2022 Well, this has certainly been another highly changeable weather month for New England. Warm, cold, even colder, summertime, hail, rain, and finally, flowers budding and waiting for just a few days of warm, sunny weather… Read More ›
THE BIG ONE: THE BLIZZARD OF 1978 – by GARRY ARMSTRONG
This is the time of year when big snowstorms hit this region. Forty-three years ago, a gigantic winter storm began moving into eastern Massachusetts. On the afternoon of Feb. 6, 1978, thousands of people were let out of work early… Read More ›
NOR’EASTER FELLS THE LEGEND By GARRY ARMSTRONG
Mother Nature came through on the heels of the frantic predictions of a whopper storm. Skeptical New Englanders are watching the snow fall faster than the numbers on Wall Street after another week of gridlock on Capitol Hill. What’s the… Read More ›
SQUARE ODDS: LOOKING IN FROM OUT – GARRY ARMSTRONG
The Square Odds – February 2, 2022 This photograph is odd and interesting. Garry took it from outside on the deck in a blizzard shooting through the storm door into the house. It’s full of reflection and refractions. You can… Read More ›
LAST TWO ON THE CARDS
Last on the Card – January 2022 I think we — as a family — took more pictures during the past three or four days than we took the entire rest of the month. The huge blizzard that hit us geared… Read More ›
CHANGING SEASONS – JANUARY 2022
The Changing Seasons, January 2022 Well, this has certainly been a weathery month for we who live in the north across the whole U.S. as well as many part of the slightly more south areas of the Midwest. It was warm,… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 