It is doesn’t look like it will be a yellow week or even a brown week, not with 15 inches of snow and it is still coming down. And it was snowing too hard to get a good picture as the camera was getting wet and I was too.
White Day
Picture of the Day for December 8, 2012
As a kid, the ‘masterpieces’ drawn with Crayons always had a yellow sun so to end the yellow week, a yellow sun would be an appropriate picture except the sun on frosty morning appeared white instead of yellow.
The Sun on a Frosty Morning
Picture of the Day for December 7, 2012
It always amazes me how well weeds can grow in a drought. The grass didn’t grow but the sow thistle grew tall enough to reach the bird house.
Sow Thistle
Picture of the Day for December 6, 2012
The Hereford cow is probably wishing it was a sunny, warm fall day, surrounded by yellow and red leaves, instead of damp, grey day like today.
Sometimes it is easy to overlook how tall some of the old mills were until you see a person or critter near one, but at least the Aermotor had a tilting tower so that the owners didn’t have to climb the tower every few days to oil the gearbox. The tilting tower models disappeared once the enclosed gearboxes were invented and only needed oiling once a year (and hopefully not on a winter day).
Hereford Grazing Beneath a Windmill
Picture of the Day for December 5, 2012
Corn might not remind me of summer, unless it sweet corn on the cob drenched in butter, but it might represent a warm fall day in the sun. But at least the corn is shelled with equipment and not hand-shelled or you might get warmed with sweat shelling this truck load of corn instead of being warmed by the sun.
Load of Shelled Corn
Picture of the Day for December 4, 2012
Even though it was cloudy yesterday, the temperature warmed up enough that the chipmunks came out of hibernation which made my cat very happy. It is the only time he has any patience. He can sit at the chipmunk hole for hours waiting for the critter to poke his head back up which he had to do yesterday since I scared the chipmunk down his hole.
I wouldn’t mind being a chipmunk who sleeps most the winter and just wakes up to eat and play on the warm days, but a cat staring down the hole might be a good reason not to be chipmunk.
Yesterday and today’s chipmunk hunt didn’t have the nice yellow flowers though and will be a while before they bloom again.
Chipmunk Hunt
Picture of the Day for December 3, 2012
The grey days of November are continuing into December so I might have to do a yellow theme this week just to have some bright colors to help pretend that it is not so cloudy outside. This picture might not have a lot of yellow but does make me think of summer.
The Taylor Falls Princess is 78 feet long and travels the St. Croix River near Taylor Falls, MN. And while the St. Croix River is very deep in some spots like the narrow basalt gorge of the Dalles area, the river does widen out once past the hard rocks and can get very shallow so the loaded draft is only 1.5 feet for the Princess.
Taylor Falls Princess
Picture of the Day for December 2, 2012
These lilies give some nice color on a cloudy, winter day and the butterfly makes you think of summer.
Yellow Lilies
Picture of the Day for December 1, 2012
November was a cloudy month so there wasn’t many pretty sunsets. Maybe December will bring more colorful sunsets.
Winter Sunset
Picture of the Day for November 30, 2012
This immature pheasant better hide behind the round hay bale instead of standing on top of it since the hunting season is still open. The ring-necked pheasants are native to China and East Asia, but they have been successfully introduced in other parts of the world, including North America when introduced in 1881. In very bad weather, pheasants are known to stay on a roost for several days without eating so he before fill his tummy before the snow comes.
Pretty Pheasant
