Here comes the sun!

Here comes the sun!

What is that strange ball of light trying to shine through?? Old well house. Some critter broke through the door back in the fall. Tracks are leading in and out of it this morning. About 10am, a shadow!  But the sun still had not fully come out. Dark-eyed Junco was ready to eat! Yum, she…

More snow…

More snow…

 We got another 1/2 to 3/4 inches of snow last night. Sure will be glad when this polar vortex leaves. Just a couple days more, right. With the low of 15 degrees this morning, the frost did not produce as much on our windows. My first initial impression of this one, was a speed ice…

Brrry-er

Brrry-er

It was even colder this morning! Our low was -6.3 degrees. We have never seen it that cold here before. So far we have been really lucky and not experienced a power outage. Fingers crossed. I’m so sorry some of you are having them. By Friday hopefully we will get above freezing. Fingers and toes…

Brrrrrr

Brrrrrr

 It got down to .7 degrees. That is very close to what the app say which was  zero. It took three times for Gracie to step out from the the front porch to go to do her business before it was light outside. Then she ran to and then back to the house as quick…

A two-fer

A two-fer

Happy Valentine’s Day! A day to be inside with your love ones, eh!  It has been lightly snowing here all day. Hard to tell how much but I would say about  1/2″. Wind is blowing it too much. ERCOT says try to conserve energy. ERCOT has an app if you want to watch what is…

Sandstone!

Sandstone!

Continuing on with Tuesday’s grassland visit… Possumhaw. Bushy Bluestem. It likes the wet areas. The sandstone is just wonderful! It is like a sun! Beautiful reds. You can’t see too much of these colors? I would say not. 🙂 I can see a cat’s face in here. Back further from the cat face. Colors are…

Chien-Shiung Wu

Chien-Shiung Wu

 Luckily, we did not get any more precipitation last night. So here goes, a continuation of the Feb 8th outing. Gracie found a treasure! Hard to get a picture as Gracie said it was hers LOL. Holes in the tree look like it would make a good home. This big ole tree looked like it…

Pause

Pause

Pausing on the Tuesday’s grasslands photos.  The ice today wins 🙂   Our temperature ranged from 25 to 29 with a 91% humidity. I did see 3-4 flakes of snow in our woods at 11-ish.  The sidewalk had this ice on it early this morning! The field and the neighbor’s haybales were getting ice on them….

Cold is here!

Cold is here!

 Our high today was midnight at 32.5 degrees. We never got above 29 during daylight hours. Really glad we went to the grasslands yesterday.  With the mist this morning, we had a bit of ice on our gate. Hopefully that is all we get. Continuing on with yesterday’s grasslands photos. C Cool almost silvery moss….