25°f, about -4°C. Flurries early, then partly cloudy.
Everyone is up in arms about the coming storm that may or may not include rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, ice, and accumulations of the above are predicted to be anywhere from 3" to 15". Ah, the exact science of meteorology! I feel for them as the forecasters try to get a handle on the coming mess.
But it will be what it will be, and we shall all come out the other side somehow. The thing about living in a zone with four distinct seasons is that there is such variety in the weather, which keeps life interesting, if occasionally difficult and/or uncomfortable. But looking back over the past year, I see so much beauty and pleasure in Nature's changing palette.
For example, in 2024:
January, icicles. What loveliness!
February, the first flowers, hellebores, began to bloom.
March, and such ghostly fog.
Then came July, hot and dry and yet still the gardens gave such joy.
August, intense heat but cooler evenings, and that supermoon.
September gave the first hints of fall on the way,
and October blazed with the full glory of the season.
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November gave us some spectacular sunsets,
amd December's Solstice provided a fitting beginning to the winter season.
A nice review- hope you came out safe from that storm, if it came!
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ReplyDelete...Susanna, I wish you another beautiful year.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful post! Thank you for the reminder that there is always something that comes next.
ReplyDeleteNicely done review, all beautiful shots too! It's fun to try to make plans with these darn weather announcements that sometimes are right, just enough so I believe them till it doesn't happen that way! Hope to get out to get a haircut tomorrow. Fingers crossed the roads will be sanded from whatever lands on them!
ReplyDeleteA wonderful review. Hopefully this year will be better.
ReplyDeleteYou captured the year so well! Beautiful photos
ReplyDeleteWhat lovely photos. And the truth of life that we so often ignore in favour of handwringing. I read in the news snippets that some doctors may be prescribing 'nature' as a remedy. We are surely lucky to have the whole cornucopia spread out at our front doors. Even if what is spread just now is snow that JG is outside clearing. However, financial lift having been applied, clearing in the heated cab of his dedicated snowblower machine, which he can drive forward instead of having to sit in the wind on an inadequately shielded tractor seat and look over his shoulder as he backed the auger into the snow.
ReplyDeleteHmm. That sentence did run on. So do I. Happy New Year to you and yours.
A much as I don't like the snow and cold, I'd rather be in a four-season state than any other. I like the change -- and while winters seem colder than before, they also seem less snowy and I can work with that!
ReplyDeleteLove your October and November pictures! I think meteorologists live for storms like this. It is time for them to shine and be at the forefront to terrorize one and all!
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