I knew it, jinxed us…Winter is back. There was some debate but the Goldfinch breakfast group has agreed…Tuesday, March 19 at 11:06 p.m. EDT marked the vernal equinox for the Northern Hemisphere, when the sun was directly over the equator and its energy was in balance between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres…It’s SPRING!…but currently -5 C…so yah…no;) and how much snow forecast for Friday night, Lordy, Lordy, I don’t want to know!
We will survive until the beginning of the week when it starts to moderate again…I didn’t even put the snow shovel or the snow blower away! What weather Gods have we offended?! Ha! We were teased and tempted with pretty reflections and sunshine. Winds were howling today, even the chipmunks looked like they needed jackets! The Purple Finches were looking up at the sky…like WTF is this? Who turned on the snow machine???
When the flakes were really coming down yesterday the birds were in a feeding frenzy, they cleaned out two feeders in a morning and yes, I did go out with my umbrella to try to catch those beautiful huge cloud flakes!
A pair of deer stopped by nibbling on the lawn, looks like a mother and last years baby, those white tails! Beautiful! A grey/brown/missing hair squirrel showed up, an Eastern Grey squirrel, all our black squirrels are colour variations of those but this guy, yes, he showed me his nuts more than once, had the absolutely most fantastic tail I have ever seen, Farah Fawcett would have been envious! Yeah, I’m a boomer, get over it!
The black squirrel had me humming ♫ ♪♫ Here I am stuck in the middle with you!…♪♫♪…hahahahaha! The Mewberries were not impressed with both the stealth and cunning the large rodents are exhibiting, and the lack of any mice in the basement traps has been a big disappointment…Müther is quite happy the traps are empty;)
But those skies…sigh…and reflections… be still my heart! Then…what pines? What skyline? I can’t see a thing!?
It was so cold this morning, -9°…windchill said -20° Celsius, even the birds were avoiding the ground! The Mewberries lasted all of maybe ten minutes before trotting inside saying breakfast was the better option!
So what did I decide to do…photograph our waterfall along the hill with all the icicles, I am mad…I had secound thoughts after scrambling up the rocks on the ice thinking what have I got myself into! We’d already walked up the road to clear the beaver dam, damn industrious little rodents! But yes, just so pretty! I may go scrambling back over the rocks if it snows!
I maybe should have listened to Rocket;) “Müther should stay inside today and sit in the comfy chair with the big babou!” he said…I did wash my camera bag, yikes, first wash in 8 years, don’t get me wrong it has been vacuumed out many a time but my old 24-105mm Canon lens died, will try to get it repaired, so I went through the bag and cleaned out anything that was no longer needed, and yes, I bit the bullet and got the prime lens for the R5…which means new UV filter, new ND filter…of course it’s a few mm bigger than the old lens so nothing will fit…grrrrhhhhh…..;)
So, I’m going to go hang out with Oin and Gloin. Talk to them about peanut security, them Jays are thieves! No please or thank you! Very entitled! I’ll keep you posted about the snow…maybe, just maybe, they are wrong, you know these weather guys! Bad as the blue jays! 🙂 Saludos amigos, stay warm out there!
