It feels like spring! A degree or two over zero in sheltered spots, making it a perfect day to pick up some Vitamin D. Sun on my shoulders, sun on my hands. Warm enough to take the gloves off for a few minutes, even. And in the parking lot, the best sign of all — […]
Mirabile dictu! Warm enough today to actually venture more than 100 feet from the nearest hot chocolate emporium. With temperatures hovering around –10 C in the past few weeks — and, of course, wind chills making it seem another 10 degrees or so colder — it was not fit for man or beast…In fact, it […]
What an interesting few days we have had at the bay. Yesterday the cormorants returned. Monday they weren’t there, Tuesday they were. One day, they just magically show up — just like that. Back from wherever they spent their winters. Northern Mexico, Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi, it looks like, if I’m reading my Smithsonian handbook […]
Holy Mackinaw! There were times at the beach today when I thought I was going to be swept out to sea . . . um, the bay! I will have to look it up to see exactly what category hurricane we were having this morning. There was warmth in the sun, but it only peeked […]
It’s been months now since I’ve last seen a gadwall at our little bay in the Big Smoke. In fact, this is the first winter I haven’t seen any gadwall pairs on my usual ramblings at the lake. In the past, a few couples stuck around all season. In particular, one pair hung out in […]
