March is a transition time – slow change from winter to spring.  Some days are wintry with cold and snow; some feel and smell like spring. Continue reading →

February was very cold with a few small snowstorms – until this week.  Suddenly warm temperatures and rain have arrived and now it feels like spring.  It’s still too early for real spring – there’s probably still some winter left.   But the snow is nearly gone and the ground is thawing. Continue reading →

January has mostly been very cold with almost no snow.   But last few days have been warm and the last two days it’s felt like spring.  There’s hardly any snow on the ground so we’ve been able to walk on the tops of our hills nearly every day. Continue reading →

December was a month of appearing and then disappearing snow.  We had a few snowfalls, a few cold days, many misty melting days and not much sunshine.

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Our landscape has changed to shades of brown and the skies have been very gray.   Looking through this month’s photos I was surprised to see so many with sun and blue skies.  I guess I prefer taking pictures on days with at least a little sun. Continue reading →

We’re continuing to have warm, dry, sunny and very windy weather.  The drought is starting to be hard on plants – leaves on some of the trees curled up and turned brown without ever changing color, and even the leaves of some of the prairie plants have shriveled.  But the fall colors were beautiful and it’s been great weather for outdoor projects.  (Today we’re finally getting some rain!)
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It’s been a very warm month with not much rain.  It’s been good for working – in the cooler mornings – but we’re hoping fall weather will arrive soon.
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So far the end of the summer has been warm and wet with lots of flowers.
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It’s been a hot, wet month.  For a while we were getting thunderstorms nearly every day, often an inch of rain with each storm.  The birds were looking a little bedraggled.

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It’s been a beautiful month – warm with plenty of rain so we sometimes feel like we’re living in a rain forest.  The lingering drought from last year has completely disappeared Continue reading →