In Stillness there lies beauty

I have not blogged much lately and I will not be able to until I return from a trip.

So see you all early April!

Tracking 101

Sweetie and I went out for a weekend experience with the Master Naturalist program.

We were involved with how to discern animal tracking.

The snow for certain help.

So here ar home, where we KNOW what critters abound, we learn to look and with that learn more.

This one was a GIVEN...

The critter that made the tracks is picture # 2 on this post.

TUNA the cat ;)

She walked with me, for sure wondering what in the world I was doing!

Deer

Nope it did not follow me ;)

Wisp of a wing impression from a bird taking off

Small bird tracks, might have been the same bird, but then this was around the bird feeder.

Snap, Crackle, Crunch [pop]

I walked outside today and heard the snapping and crackling under my feet this OLD Commercial popped [hee hee] into my mind.

Snap-crackle-pop---old-rice-krispies-commercial

So beautiful outside

Just imagine

Snow outside, but this day and all of these flowers it was SPRING!

The beginning prep Line the concrete container with plastic, as the H2O would otherwise leak out

mine after the first flowers, Hydrangeas

My finished product

Are the flowers not beautiful?

It was wonderful with the sunlight streaming in and the smells of SPRING were TOTALLY in that room

Hee hee Hydrangeas with no BUGS wonderful

Puppiness

Hoar- Frost

With the sub zero temperature here there was no doubt the high probability of seeing Hoar frost.

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I wanted to take more pictures, but it was toooooooooooooooooooooo cold. I would aim at the object then my glasses would fog up and I couldn’t see what I was aiming at, HA. Then I would take the glasses off, but first had to take off my gloves, then by the time I was ready to AIM my hands were too numb to click. HA

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This day the low was minus 4, not sure what it was with the wind chill factor But Tell ya what it was mighty cold. The HIGH this day was a BALMY PLUS 9

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Oh well ;)

Hoar-frost first turns up in written English in 1290 as hore frost. Strictly speaking, hoar-frost is the kind of frost that turns everything it forms upon white or gray. Due to the fact that hair turns gray with age, things that are white or gray are often associated with old age and this is the original sense of hoar. Old English har and Old High German her both meant "old" or, as a secondary meaning, "venerable, august". According to Dictionary.com, the Online Etymology Dictionary says the word 'hoar', as it pertains to frost, "It is recorded in O.E. (hoar-frost is c.1290), expressing the resemblance of the white feathers of frost to an old man's beard." The word itself came from the Proto-Germanic (P.Gmc) word har meaning "grey, venerable, old". The Germans still retain this word in the form of Herr, which is a title of respect.

Under clear frosty nights in winter soft ice crystals might form on vegetation or any object that has been chilled below freezing point by radiation cooling. This deposit of ice crystals is known as hoar frost and may sometimes be so thick that it might look like snow. The interlocking ice crystals become attached to branches of trees, leafs, hedgerows and grass blades and are one of the most prominent features of a typical 'winter wonderland' day. However, the fine 'feathers', 'needles' and 'spines' might also be found on any other object that is exposed to supersaturated air below freezing temperature.

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

With the Wind Chill Factor is is

MINUS 13 here as of 9 am

Droplets ~ Beads ~ Gems

Serenity of a Spring Shower

All of us could take a lesson from the weather.

It pays no attention to criticism.- Author Unknown

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

- Kin Hubbard

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance”

Jane Austen quotes (British Novelist and Writer, 1775-1817)