Even when the temperatures stay below freezing for a week and we get over half a foot of snow, the pond doesn’t ice over immediately. The wild irises (lower right) had some small sprouts poking out before the snowfall, but I think they’re reconsidering about now. A lot of people turn off their pond in [...]
Archive for December, 2007
16 Dec
Looks like a real winter here
We got about 8 inches of snow yesterday. It made for some tricky driving, but it’s way better than the freezing rain we got last week! The orange coneflowers are wearing snow hats now, looking quite a bit different than they did in August. The Annabelle hydrangeas are trying to hold up under this big [...]
9 Dec
The first sign of spring
This weekend marked the first sign that spring will come again. We have reached the earliest sunset of the year–4:20 pm–and will start seeing slightly more light at the end of the day even as the sunrises get later for another month. The reason why the solstice, earliest sunset, and earliest sunrise are spread over [...]
5 Dec
The start of winter
This isn’t even the first snowy day of winter – we got a couple of inches of snow on December 1, but it was followed by rain (both freezing and non-freezing) that removed most of it. And it is still coming down now, thanks to a wind coming off of Lake Michigan. I’ve posted the [...]
