We repainted the haybale, so that our snowmen are now ready for Valentine's Day.  

 

The folk art snowmen are still there;  Hey!  Snowman season is not over yet.  I'm glad:  we may still get to make a real snowman and go sledding.

 

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

 

OK.  It's still cold, as you can see, but there IS sunshine to be had.  You just have to look for it.

 

This cool metal sculpture is at Meeks Park in Blairsville, on the side of the new pavilion.  It always makes us smile.  

 

Thought you could use a winter smile about now.

 

HAPPY FEBRUARY!!!

 

 

 

I just realized that TODAY is the Chinese New Year!!!  This is the year of the Tiger.  

 

I read lots of interesting customs and superstitions associated with the Chinese New Year.  You can read about them here:

 

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

 

This is a closeup of the deck rail.  Pretty, huh?  

 

Our whole world was frosted last Friday.

 

HAPPY WINTER!!!

 

Look at the Blueberry bushes!!  

 

And that weird thing in the garden, is the cucumber trellis.  It is chicken wire, and frosted with Friday's ice.  

 

HAPPY WINTER!!!

 

All day Thursday we were under a giant cloud of fog.  Overnight that fog solidified into ice on all the trees.

 

No snow on the ground, but a beautiful winterscape.  Everything was flocked!!!  And it lasted all day!

 

HAPPY WINTER!!!

 

We got our snow on Sunday night into Monday morning.  Not as much as NOAA predicted, but enough to make us smile.

 

There's nothing quite like waking up to snow.  

 

HAPPY WINTER!!!

 

I was hoping to post pretty snow pictures today.  

 

NOAA weather said we were supposed to get 6-10 inches of snow yesterday.  Fluffy snow came down about 4 am, but then it changed to rain.  I shouldn't complain, but rain and 38 degrees is (IMO) a waste of precipitation.  

 

Well, while we were lamenting our lack of snow, this is what happened.  This bright, bold, beautiful rainbow showed up in our western sky and lasted a couple of minutes.  We stared at it from the deck as it came and went and came back.

 

Shame on me, I thought, to grouse about the weather.  Our weather is perfect.

 

STILL HOPING FOR SNOW!!!

 

 

 

Bye bye Mr. Turkey, Hello Santa.

 

This is what we do for fun.  Yesterday afternoon Mike took the turkey parts home, and Jon and I repainted the haybale.  I can't help it;  I wake up in the morning thinking about this stuff:  How to turn a round bale of hay into something to make you smile.

 

It worked too, didn't it.

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

 

 

 

The Bradford pears are somewhere between this and naked.  They are so pretty when they change color, but it doesn't last that long.  

 

This one is just above Al's house on Stonebriar.  Better go see it before it drops all those beautiful leaves.

 

HAPPY FALL Y'ALL!!!