Tuesday, the day before the storm, our dogs monitored the backyard. I love each of them, they are so different from one another, so unique.
Day: March 13, 2014
Remarkable
Yesterday’s storm was a doozy, 15 cm of heavy snow fell in about eight hours. The wind picked up during the day, up to about 60 kilometers per hour or more. The last few klicks of my drive home was harrowing, I don’t care to do that again.
Faye was home and I was, am, grateful. Had she been working away from home I would have been full of worry and concern about her getting home. She cleared the deck, the dogs were safe and comfortable, she generously ensured that there was plenty of sunflower seed scattered for the birds hanging on through this (I hope!) last big storm.
She also took photos, including this remarkable image of snow in our chain link fence. Remarkable. Snow, a most ephemeral substance, gathering, piling, accumulating on the fences’ narrow round fabric despite the incredibly strong gusty wind.
Diamonds . . .
. . . sparkling in the light.
Spare beauty
I pruned our redbud tree a few weeks ago. In tree years the tree has grown from 3 to six feet and graces us with glorious colour every year. It needed pruning to open the structure up a little.
Faye read that you can bring a limb indoors and force it to bloom. Indeed that is happening. The buds have swelled noticeably, already adding welcome colour to our late winter household.
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