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Sunflowers in winter

December 5, 2008

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Katherine has been exploring the winter landscape and found these fanciful silhouettes. Dried stalks of sunflowers lean into the wind, as if trudging across the arctic tundra . . .

P-p-patch of b-b-blue

December 4, 2008

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For just a moment the sun came out. I think it was the sun. Might have been a great glowing alien spacecraft I suppose. Anyway, Miss Sadie, the Cowboy and I headed for the beach to catch some rays. We would have stayed longer, but it was a little breezy, and besides it’s time to […]

December 1 and everybody’s snowed in except Dean Peters

December 1, 2008

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It started last night.  A wide swath of sleety snow blew out of the southwest and whomped us upside the earmuffs.  This morning there was a good six inches of the stuff on the deck and it’s still coming down.  The ski resorts are happy, except that no one can get to them because the roads are […]

Lake effect

November 16, 2008

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All day today the Weather Widget over in the right column has been posting an Advisory! of a winter storm coming our way, bearing–surprise surprise–lake effect snow.  A lake effect snow warning remains in effect until 11 am EST Monday . . . .  Overnight snow accumulations within the warned area are expected to range […]