I am learning that digital cameras weren't meant to function in subzero temperatures. Not my digital camera, anyway. It took the picture, but complained bitterly.
JANUARY 2010
Tina and I both thought the tree would surely be covered in snow, right up to the tippy-top. Though plenty has fallen, it kee
ps blowing away.
FEBRUARY 2010
ps blowing away.FEBRUARY 2010
Yes, I'm serious!
A little later in the day I took this one. And wow, the tree is still there!
It's been foggy some, freezing fog of course, but this day was sure a doozy. Driving along, about all you could see was the road for a little ways ahead, since everything on the sides was white, and the snow blended seamlessly into the fog.
A little later in the day I took this one. And wow, the tree is still there!
It's been foggy some, freezing fog of course, but this day was sure a doozy. Driving along, about all you could see was the road for a little ways ahead, since everything on the sides was white, and the snow blended seamlessly into the fog.
MARCH 2010
Does this photo look familiar? I'm having such an odd sense of deja vu all over again.
STILL MARCH 2010
The only time I had ever seen anything like this was in It Could Happen Tomorrow about the ice storm. You can imagine what the poor power lines looked like! We had more outages than you could shake an icicle at. 
APRIL 2010
What a difference a month makes! Almost everything has melted, and things are just beginning to grow. The red-winged blackbirds just returned, and if their songs could show up in the picture, there would be so many you couldn't even see the tree.
MAY 2010
It's yo-yo season. First the weather was so warm I got out my shorts, and then with very little warning it was snowing again. Sun, rain, more snow, more sun.
Everything is turning green - the grass, the leaves on bushes and trees, the roof of the abandoned house next door...
It's very windy, too. When you come to visit me, you won't have any trouble figuring out why this whole part of the country is a windmill-full energy mine.
Bring your Aquanet!
JUNE 2010
Once it decides to green up around here, it does it in a hurry! The lilacs are nearing full bloom, we've had to mow the lawn several times, and it's almost time to set out tomatoes.
Which could be why the ones I planted several weeks ago were not doing too well. Live and learn.
I built a portable greenhouse (of sorts) around them, so I think that story will have a happy ending.
What a busy month, and fairly hot (for here). Tina was very cranky with the lentil farmers, who accelerate the drying of their crop by spraying Round-up and other herbicides to kill the plants.
No, it's not the use of chemicals on the plants that has her up in arms - live lentils are a lush green with a hint of yellow, that is her new favorite color. Dead lentils are brilliant wheat-yellow and orange. Not her favorite color.
AUGUST 2010
After a string of thunderstorms, with two tornadoes causing a total of three deaths near us, August took a quick turn for the chilly. After a bit it warmed back up again, but there is no doubt that fall is on the way.
For one thing, the birds are just beginning their southward migration. For another, the kids are back in school. Oh, yeah!
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