From the Land of Ice and Snow

It has warmed up a fair bit today, and the rest of the week is supposed to bring above-freezing temperatures. I figure this might be a good time to show you just how cold and snowy it has been for the past few weeks.

Bedroom windows are always a pretty reliable measure of the frigid temperatures outside, and of just how creative Nature can be.

I can see patterns in these waves of frozen snow. Here, I see a flock of flying dragons taking off from the icy ripples for other wintry lands unknown.

But the icy fingers of February will soon yield to warmer weather.

Queen Anne's Lace will emerge from beneath their blankets of snow.

And burrs will shed their fluffy hats and bask in the sunshine.

I'm going to enjoy the coming warmth because I know that winter will be back for a repeat performance.

Blog post title blatantly stolen from Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song.

Silent Sunlight, Welcome In

Thanks everyone for playing along and providing amusing captions for yesterday's post. You folks are very clever. Your captions are in the comments section of the previous post. If you haven't read them all, you can check it out when you're done here.

Early one morning, I opened my eyes to see the sunlight streaming in through my bedroom window. It was just rising up above the rooftops across the street and pouring its warmth into my room.

A silver coffee pot filled with fake flowers caught the light first. Luckily for me, the camera was nearby.

Just a couple of feet over, this wood-carved hummingbird flew into the sunshine. This was a gift from my son, who knows how much I love these creatures.

This is one of my favourite real hummingbird shots which I snapped last summer.

And one more. OK, back to the morning.



This beauty is my ever curious, ever present Skittles. He was watching me take photos on this morning and wondering when the heck I would get up to get his breakfast.



I did that shortly after he obliged me with this pose.

Time for coffee.

In case you were wondering why it sounded familiar, the post title is from a Cat Stevens song.