The oak leaf is trying to get out of the snow but the snow isn’t letting go of its grip yet and winter appears to be staying.
Leaf Fighting the Snow
Picture of the Day for November 6, 2013
The oak leaves were white again this morning but this time it wasn’t frost making them white but instead they were covered with snow, even the leaves still on the trees.
Winter Begins
Picture of the Day for May 4, 2013
A few weeks ago, I sent my relatives a picture of showing how deep the snow was when I opened the garage door. And since the picture showed the inside the garage, one of my sweet, lovable aunts replied “For heaven sake, what is that shovel doing hanging on the wall. Shouldn’t that owner have been using it?”
Well that owner has been using it and used it too much this winter as I wore off several inches off the bottom of the poor worn out shovel. And I haven’t even shoveled all the snow from the last snow; the May snow.
Worn Out Shovel
Picture of the Day for May 3, 2013
This weather is not even for the birds, not with this much snow in May! The robins have had their tails snowed on more than three times already so where in the heck is spring!
Where is Spring?
Picture of the Day for May 2, 2013
Apparently when I turned the calendar yesterday, I must have turned it to December instead of May because with the eighteen inches of new snow, it looks more like winter than May!
Winter in May
Picture of the Day for April 25, 2013
This barn seems a bit sad. Maybe it is sad because there is still snow this late into April. Or maybe it is sad because it is remembering ANZAC day, a day celebrated day remembering the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. ANZAC Day’s motto is ‘Lest We Forget’.
So let us remember all veterans worldwide, especially the veterans in Australian and New Zealand on their celebration day, but also all the other sacrifices made by policemen, fireman, farmers and others that protect us, provide services and goods that allow us to enjoy our existence in this world.
Lest We Forget
Picture of the Day for April 24, 2013
On April 24, 1916, Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organize a rescue for the ice-trapped ship Endurance. After four rescue attempts, Shackleton made it back to Elephant Island on August 30.
The Endurance became trapped in the Weddell Sea in February 1915 and the expedition had to abandon ship at the end of October. The ice condition made it difficult to travelthan a mile a day so the party camped on the ice waiting for the ice to breakup. Finally in April 1916 the crew made it to Elephant Island and remained there until their rescue in August. It would be more than 40 years before the first crossing of Antarctica was achieved, by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1955–58.
After some icy winter days here, there is no way I want to endure the Antarctic ice!
Icy Tree
Picture of the Day for April 23, 2013
April showers bring May flowers. But I don’t know what April snow brings except moans and groans! Even the birds seem frustrated with the snow as it covered their bird seed again with the new snow over night.
April Snow
Picture of the Day for April 15, 2013
The RMS Titanic, a British passenger liner, sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning on April 15, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg the previous evening just before midnight during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City.
Yesterday it wasn’t an ice berg, but ice did cause a ‘sinking’ when the power lines and trees became encased in ice. When the heavy limbs broke from the freezing rain, it took power lines down causing a power outage.
The remaining passengers and crew aboard the Titanic when she sank were plunged into lethally cold water with a temperature of only 28°F. Almost all of those in the water died of hypothermia, cardiac arrest, or drowning within minutes. Even though the temperature was below freezing yesterday, at least my house didn’t get that cold before the power was restored.
Icy Day
Picture of the Day for April 13, 2013
This milkweed pod looks like a monster ready to devour something. Hopefully it wants to gobble up snow because it has a lot of snow to eat!
Milkweed Monster
