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Still breathing
Mar. 16th, 2008 08:39 amYesterday's "storm" turned into a few brief snow-showers that failed to even coat the ground. This, after the nature center PTBs canceled that excursion in search of winter birds.
Bare grass showing in the hay fields. Ugly gray and brown and yellow on the remaining drifts.
Today's storm, which remains real, looks to pass out to sea to the south of us.
I had delusions of late winter snow, now that my foot has at last recovered to ski-boot condition. All things being equal, you lose.
On the brighter side, Wife and I have collected sweet sap-cicles* from the maple trees on several recent walks. The maple tap out at the nature center has been dripping away nicely. Sugar house people are firing up their boilers.
*sap-cicles are icicles formed by sap leaks on maple trees in freezing weather. They tend to be sweeter toward the tip, where evaporation concentrates the sugar. I suspect they taught the First People about the concept of maple sugar.
Bare grass showing in the hay fields. Ugly gray and brown and yellow on the remaining drifts.
Today's storm, which remains real, looks to pass out to sea to the south of us.
I had delusions of late winter snow, now that my foot has at last recovered to ski-boot condition. All things being equal, you lose.
On the brighter side, Wife and I have collected sweet sap-cicles* from the maple trees on several recent walks. The maple tap out at the nature center has been dripping away nicely. Sugar house people are firing up their boilers.
*sap-cicles are icicles formed by sap leaks on maple trees in freezing weather. They tend to be sweeter toward the tip, where evaporation concentrates the sugar. I suspect they taught the First People about the concept of maple sugar.
