The snow continued until last this evening so it was another day without seeing a sunset, although the skies probably will be clear this week when the temperature drops below zero and then it will be too cold to enjoy a sunset outside.
Missing Sunset
At least when it is cloudy and raining in the summer, there might be a chance to see a rainbow. Cloudy and snowing in the winter doesn’t give you any color in the sky.
Summer Rainbow
On a cold December day, you won’t find a butterfly or other insects on the bright colorful butterfly weed. Even my last little viola has disappeared under the snow so the yard is not very colorful except for a cardinal or blue jay at the feeder.
Butterfly Weed
Seventy five years ago, a speech delivered by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a Joint Session of Congress on December 8, 1941, which lasted just over seven minutes and was heard over the radio to over eighty one percent of the American homes in which President Roosevelt proclaimed December 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy”. Some might have listened on a radio like this RCA Radiola Super-Heterodyne when Roosevelt told of the attack and asked Congress to declare war with Japanese empire.
Old Radio
An ice formation looking like a shark’s mouth is a better view than the ice outside my door which I have been slipping and sliding on the last two days.
Ice Teeth
Winter may have just started but I am tired of the cloudy, snowy days already and rather see some more color outside so Saint Nicholas could have delivered some sunshine today.
Autumn Drive
Although it was slightly above freezing today, there was no autumn foliage and no sunshine to cause a reflection of yellow and gold in the pool of water as in October. Instead the ice is forming along the edges and snow hides the green beneath.
Golden Water
There was no green grass for the cats to explore today on their Sunday walk since in a day the look changed overnight to white with the lawn is under a coat of the cold snow.
December’s Last Green Day
With the colder days, the squirrels are a constant nuisance on my bird feeder and there was no close corn field nearby this year for them to eat cob corn so they like my bird seed instead.
Corn for Squirrels
The cats have found that the truck tires are warmer than the concrete on days like today when it doesn’t get above freezing. They would be warmer if they just stayed in the barn but they think they might get more attention by the house instead.
Cats on Tire
