18 Apr
I was most intrigued when I first saw this beautiful hotel on TV this past winter.
The whole building and everything in it is completely made of ice - the tables, chairs, beds, sculptures, walls, and even the chandeliers.
The one pictured above was built in Sweden, and they started building it in mid November.
By the [...]
Posted in art, places, winter by: kml
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28 Jan
Our trusty snow plow, or The Beast, as it is appropriately named, sits patiently in the snow.
It hasn’t seen the road for years - it only gets to drive up and down the driveway.
And push snow.
It has been a hard year for it this season, though.
The brakes went three storms ago, and after the last [...]
Posted in transportation, winter by: kml
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11 Jan
I knew as soon as I awoke that we had received the predicted snowfall overnight.
I didn’t have to go to the window. I didn’t have to turn on the TV or the radio.
It was all in the sound - or should I say the silence.
We live in the country, so it is always very quiet [...]
Posted in environment, nature, winter by: kml
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04 Jan
We had a new visitor to our feeder today - a Red Bellied Woodpecker.
It was the first time I had seen one like him, and when I checked my field guide, it stated that their normal habitat range was quite a bit further south than we are.
His body has the markings of most of the [...]
Posted in animals, nature, wildlife, winter by: kml
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16 Dec
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
-By John Ruskin
After these past 5 days, this is certainly true.
Our region was hit with a severe ice storm that took our power away for 5 days. Pretty [...]
Posted in nature, quotes, winter by: kml
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01 Dec
Have you ever heard about the seed vault that resides just a few miles from the North Pole?
Since it’s opening in February 2008, millions of seeds have been deposited into it. It has the capacity to hold 4.5 million seeds.
It is located on a small Norwegian island named Spitsbergen, and it was built to preserve [...]
Posted in environment, food, nature, places, winter by: kml
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17 Sep
I thought I was hearing things when I heard the evening news mention something about drive-thru flu shots.
All I could think of was: Do you want that supersized? YIKES!
After looking more into it online, it seems they have a pretty slick process set up - and you truly never leave the car.
You sign a consent [...]
Posted in health, winter by: kml
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