Wintertime in the Rockies

My daughter and I drove to Utah today, about halfway to California.
The past two days on the Front Range have been all about rain. It was a good thing, because they haven’t had much rain in the last month or so. Of course, Mother Nature waited until I drove into town to throw down a [...]

wintersigh

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winter is slowly peeling
her finest clothes off with a sigh
flowers will bend their tender heads
to warm breezes by and by
a winter anniversary–
i threw my heart off the high bridge
nearly three years ago
i laced it up in satin bows and when
the sun sank low
i took it from my pocket
i waved it at the town
i tossed that [...]

Spring Thaw

It’s 50 and cause for celebration!
As soon as the snow melts, I think I’ll see if my bamboo and grapevines survived the winter.

That Darned Groundhog Was Right!

This is the image out of my front window this morning.

What a horrible little animal! I wonder if they make good eating?

Major Annoyances vs. Minor Annoyances

I’m feeling rather out of sorts and grumpy today. In my other life, at that other web site, I would have unleashed a rant of monumental proportions about one thing or another. I like ranting. It is in my personality to explode like Mt. Saint Helens and to quickly cool down like snowfall on Florida [...]

Captured Under a Dome of Gray

A winter ice storm just barely missed us, and for this I am thankful. There was only a thin coating on my sidewalk and car. I do not winter easily, especially here. It seems that in the process of aging, my bones are getting more and more brittle and my tolerance for cold is less [...]

A Layer of Fog Makes Me Lazy

It snowed last night after an enormous wind and bit of a chill; big, wet and fluffy flakes danced to the earth in the midnight calm. “They” (those meteorologists-who gave them a license to be wrong all the time?) said we could possibly get three to six inches of snow and that news sent the [...]