It's a calm winter day today. The garden is a beautiful scene. We watched an immature eagle soar down from the high meadow to the river. He never flapped his wings, not even once, until he reached the river.Yesterday we got some new snow, and wind to go with it.The snow blew through the garden and erased any sign of tracks. The paths we require to get in and out had to be shoveled once again.
It's quite amazing to me the way the snow evens everything out, but then sometimes it leaves a hole for no apparent reason. Ed's footprints leading to the garden shed have disappeared completely until just before the door to the shed. Waves and ripples appear much like the ripples on sand dunes. Drifts appear in the most interesting places.Our inside gardening project for today is to order the potatoes. We like to order directly from a small potato farmer, Ronniger's. Right now we are playing a game of phone tag. When that order is done the serious seed shopping will begin.
4 comments:
Yes, it is so still winter. We had wonderful temps today, but tomorrow is another story as that cold air mass reaches us in Oklahoma. Thanks for the beautiful snow photos. Hope you get your potatoes ordered.~~Dee
It is, indeed, still winter and very cold here in NS tonight -- 10F in fact.
There's a fabulous quote (I can't recall the author) about how snow is a great equalizer -- that old houses and new, old cars and new, all look the same under a fresh fall of snow. Your neighbors' unkempt lawn looks the same as your well manicured lawn when the snow covers it. Your beautiful photos in which the snow had erased all footprints reminded me of that. :)
Hi Becky, thanks for leaving a comment on The Turning Year - you are right, it IS very white over here! Your pictures are beautiful
K
Aunt Becky,
Ah...it is still winter. Yet, we here in Maryland (where I am) have not seen a flake. As I teacher I feel it my responsibility to wish for school snow. You know the snow that is great enough to call off school and cause a state of emergency so we don't have to make up the day. So here is my request...it looks like from your pictures that you have more than enough snow. Therefore, could you or Uncle Ed go out and blow your hardest south to send some down here. It would be greatly appreciated. Sandy
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