Monday January 18, 2010

 

 

A Recap of Last Week’s Weather

Cold

 

 

I love winter sunrises. Maybe they seem especially beautiful because of the bare, frozen landscape.

 

 

Everything looked cold last week – even our pretty valley.

 

 

Cornstalks were frozen and lifeless.

 

 

How do birds survive below freezing temperatures?

 

 

Our country streams looked frigid.

 

 

If these are the Canada Geese who visit this pond each spring to hatch and train their goslings, they were in for a frozen surprise.

 

 

This Lady Beetle was grateful to come inside when somebody opened the door.

 

 

Many of our local birds seemed grateful for the bird feeders.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Carolina Wren

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And then there was one of the most beautiful sunsets of this winter.  It lit up the entire western sky, with orange reflections in the east, and north, and south.