Lets Jump Together

One more post about ice, and then I will give it a break.
I don’t usually insert video into my blog - mainly because I have no idea how to do it.
Hopefully this one will come through.
It is a video from the Extreme Ice program on PBS.
What you are viewing is a compilation of slides over [...]

Even though the calendar says that winter doesn’t arrive for another 10 days, we are well entrenched in it here in New England.
Even the biting cold that doesn’t usually come until January has settled in.
It turned the foot of snow we received Wednesday into hardpack that is very unmovable.
And the driveway - it is quite [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]