Posted on March 8th, 2010 under nature. Tags: clouds, fog, home, mountains, snow, sunrise, winter. Comments: 1

A few weeks ago, on my way home, I notice what looked like a mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion in the southeast portion of the sky. It wasn’t quite as pronounced by the time I got home and took this picture, but it still looked a bit out of the ordinary.

Posted on June 20th, 2009 under nature. Tags: clouds, home, skywatch. Comments: 1

I was reading a book in my Adirondack chair on the deck the other day with this view. It was cloudy and overcast but still nice out.

Posted on May 17th, 2009 under places. Tags: home, spring, trees. Comments: 2

Last year my wife planted these flowers (six different kinds–only two and a bit of a third can be seen in this photograph) in the planter box on our deck. After a month or two they died, as flowers do, which was good actually. Normally we plant something and the deer eat them by the next morning. The deer didn’t touch these.

We did nothing to the planter box over the winter. The dead flowers remained. This spring they have all come back to life and have been giving us great visual pleasure for the past month plus. Incredible flowers these are–to be able to bounce back like this after sitting under snow and freezing temperatures all winter and at the same time not be tempting to the deer.

Posted on April 26th, 2009 under nature, places. Tags: flowers, home. Comments: 4