My apologies to you who have moved to a place still in the snow, but here are some more flowers.
Archive for the 'Nature' Category
This flower is one of the first to bloom and the flowers start white and gradually turn purple.
Sure, warming into the sixties, no frost for a week, no rain…birds singing…wild flowers are starting to come out. Banana slugs are on the move. Okay, if you live in St. Paul or somewhere up there, don’t throw up. It just means global warming isn’t the most even thing. What global warming really means, is more energy in the earth weather system, heat is energy. First it moves the air, then the wind, then the wind pushes around these things like cold and warm fronts. That is why, even when its cold, it is still…global warming. I am no expert, but I do watch the weather channel. Anyway, something was making my columbines start sprotting before I could get them in the ground…
Next blog will be on the slow, but steady progress of …sudden oak death around here. I swear, its thinning the woods enough that I can see through the trees to houses I didn’t know were there.
The weather is clearing, sun is coming through the trees at noon. We just had two inches of rain last night. So, its wet but it looks nice and moss is everywhere. This past month has really rained, no record for here, but we did have two days that rained 7 inches each time. Biggest reason why it is hard to write much on the blog, is quite honestly…I’m down. Lately, I feel like I am just gearing up to move. I don’t like moving. I like this place, even though at times its cold and you wonder during big storms if a tree is going to hit your house.
We are just over extended. We pay too much, our mortgage went up too. Plus, we miss family members. I’ll try to hang in there and hope that by this summer it will get better.
This will be a big update. Nothing like a two day power outage to get me back to blogging. We just had a huge storm pass through, about nine inches at this point, but its still got another day of rain to go. I will post a picture. I am with a whole bunch of people in Scotts Valley at the Coffee Cat where I can plug in and get recharged. I think the hardest thing about a power outage is the lack of light and TV. I don’t want to miss the playoffs.
I wish I had enough light to paint, I want to finish remodeling this one room. That has really kept me the most busy over the past month. I have been putting in paneling, new flooring, staining, cutting wood and smashing fingers.
We are still out for school, but the hardest thing is keeping the house warm enough for 4 turtles. The two hamsters just hunker down. The turtles had heaters for their water and a lamp, but without heat they can’t eat, they can’t digest their food without heat. I know I should cuddle them and wrap them in hot water bottles. I am not there yet, but Blondie wants me to let them out whatever I do.
I am working on poem, I will post it…let me know what you think.
Well on the top of the hill maybe, because snow level is supposed to be at about 2000 feet. That usually means I have a scary drive down Bear Creek Road.
Right now, at almost 7pm it is 39 and dropping with precipitation enough to make snow. Should see it on the way to work anyway.
What a huge long crash. It was only about ten feet from one of our cars. A madrone went down and as it fell, it took two oaks and another madrone with it. The dominoe effect made it sound like the longest falling tree….I was imagining this really tall redwood or douglas fir going down because the sound lasted so long. It took the lights out at the same time, I guess just because of the shaking to the nearby telephone pole. Madrone wood is really hard and heavy, it is like the manzanita (they are in the same family), but the madrone can grow 200 feet high and when this really heavy wood falls it can take down any trees in the way. Two of the trees were snaped off about 15 feet from the ground. I though something fell from the sky, the way it looked. Okay, I’ll take a picture and post it…anyway it really scared us.