A sunny day
posted in Alaska, Garden, Weather |It was a sunny day today, so I had to sneak out to get some pictures around the yard. Yesterday was actually much more interesting; it was sunny and there were clouds and snippets of fog, but, alas, every time I decided I was going to ditch work for 15 minutes for some pics, a cloud or fog would filter in front of the sun, and things stopped being pretty and started being dingy gray.
But today was nice. First up, we have bird tracks in the snow. OmegaDad has been feeding the birds; it’s not quite time for us to be worrying about bears, and it’s far enough into the winter season that the birds are voracious when they find a feeder. They frolic around, dive-bombing each other and bashing into the feeder, knocking seed into the snow, and then the ones who are being fought off discover the seeds in the snow and gorge themselves down there.
We circle into the back yard now to take pics of other things, such as a snow-bedecked seed head of the cow parsnip which infests our back and side yards:
A twig in the snow:
A snowy stump in the very back, up against the woodsy area:
The sun peeping through the trees on the southeast side of the yard:
All very pretty. Alas, the coming of the sun has made me antsy for spring; as you can see, spring is still far away. But it’s getting light before 8 a.m. and dark after 6:00 p.m., so we are making progress. Various of my blog feeds are featuring pictures of buds, and all I can do is offer a heartfelt, mental “Pppbbbbtttt!” at them, and cling to the knowledge that in a few months we, too, will be seeing buds.
