If you reside in a region for any length of time, the weather patterns become ingrained in your psyche. You anticipate changes in season, you feel the subtleties of temperature trends, and you plant or mate accordingly. It isn’t so much the forecast you rely upon as your five senses. You observe the flora and fauna behavior influenced by such changes and you adapt accordingly. Such instincts can serve a person well if the weather performs in a historical, predictable fashion.
If. Such a tiny word to express such a large sentiment.
Weather has been uncharacteristically below freezing since the New Year arrived. Those residing in Canada or near the Great Lakes feel justified in coughing, “pussy” under your breath in fratboy fashion. I know not what cold really is.. Still in a relative sense it’s been cold. So cold, thirty degrees F feels balmy.
This month has been filled with blankets, video games, and hot tea. For entertainment, I have spent many hours gazing at the bird feeder hanging outside the kitchen window. The birds it seems cope much better with cold than the rest of the housemates.
and to think, birds used to really freak me out
you’re getting a bit of a break now, though, yes? Our weather broke five days ago and we spent a lot of time outside. Today mixed precip was predicted, but it’s all rain. Debating whether to take the kids to the movies or just stay home.
We put our birdfeeder out front – I thought I wouldn’t mind the mess there, but I do, and I don’t even have the benefit of a window to watch them from, although there is a bush that they sit in while nibbling and waiting for another turn at the feeder, so we observe them there.
Great photos. The squirrel shot says it all. I have a fondness for cute junkos.
Ooooh! Pretty birdie pictures.
Love the photos. We’re having an uncharacteristically warm winter. Not that I’m complaining (that is directed at you universe). Just enough snow for the kiddos to enjoy and not so much we have to feel buried. Besides, I really hate being cold.
flutter, birds that dive bomb… still freak me out.
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de, the cold broke Friday, and it’s been a nice change even though it has been rainy. It seems I spend a lot of time standing at the kitchen sink, so it’s a good location for the feeder (which hangs @ 8 feet off the ground) the squirrels clean up most of the mess that falls beneath it.
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meno, bright colors for an otherwise dull season.
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Maggie, so no nine foot snow drifts next to the driveway? Good for you and the kids.