It's not Denver, but it's snow!

Okay, it's not two feet. It isn't even two inches, but it finally snowed here in Massachusetts yesterday (12-30). The kids were thrilled. There is something special about the first snow of the season. Already today, most of it has melted and the storm coming in tomorrow will bring warm temperatures and rain. We are well behind the normal 9 inches of snowfall for the month of December. This being New England, you never know what the weather might be like next week. The forecasters do say that based on historical records that Decembers with almost no snow are followed by a winter with a lower than normal snowfall. The real question will be: will we be short of precipitation for the spring?

A Walk in the Woods

I am half way through Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods and really enjoying it. Living in New England like Bryson, I am familiar with the Applachian Trail running through the area. In fact, my husband and I have hiked small portions of it in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. We certainly don't have as humorous adventures to tell of our experiences on the trail and with some of our fellow hikers.

Here we are hiking closer to home, on trails at the Beaver Brook Association in Hollis, NH.

Look at that Sky!

This morning the sky was simply gorgeous! Of course when I first got out of bed it was still dark out. While having breakfast, I looked out the window and noticed the color of the sky. I'm not sure if I captured the intensity of the colors exactly. Just like the old saying of "red skies in the morning, sailors take warning," we had showers later in the day. The science behind this phenomena, comes from the sun's rays shining through the dust in the atmosphere which is being pushed ahead of an approaching low pressure system bringing moisture with it.

Baby it's Cold Outside

I'm behind in my postings. The fall has gone by and I've been hard at work. Today, I am blessed with one of those days off where I can finally get caught up and create.

Here in New England it has finally turned seasonably cold. Last week in Boston we broke the temperature record on November 30th with a reading of 69 degrees (F) beating out 68 degrees (F) set in 1881! It was weird going Christmas shopping on the 1st of December in 60 degree weather.

Baby it's cold outside today as the song goes. While waiting for the bus to come for my son, I snapped these pictures of my rhododenrons. The leaves curl in an attempt to prevent mositure loss. It was 20 degrees (F) when I took these pictures. You can see that the bush close to the house is not as tightly curled as those near the street. Obviously, our house is not as weather tight as we would like, and some heat is escaping.