Wednesday, July 31, 2013

A Little Mid-Summer Rain


Clouds over Bear Creek Valley




Puffball sprouting at the edge of our road.

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Monday, June 17, 2013

Planting Sweet Potatoes

Sweet potatoes were our last major planting in our spring garden.  Yes, we're running a little behind schedule.  What else is new?


Jo is measuring where the next sweet potato set should be planted.




Digging a shallow hole.




Placing the set (slip) into the hole.




Filling in around the newly planted set with dirt.


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Sunday, February 17, 2013

30-Minute Blizzard



Okay, maybe our snowfall Saturday morning (2/16/13) wasn't actually a blizzard, but it was certainly more than the forecast flurries.  Daybreak was partly cloudy.  Then, more clouds moved in followed by this fairly heavy snowfall which only lasted for about thirty minutes.



The Goldfinches took advantage of  our bird feeder under the porch while the snow fell.

The snow stopped as abruptly as it started.  A little while later, the sky was clearing again.





By noon, sunshine was chasing the fallen snow into the deep shadows.



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