Rain Drops on lily leaves

Rain Drops on lily leaves, originally uploaded by addvt2nh.

Twenty Days with rain and very little sun.
The up shot is that it isn't snow.

Sugar Snow

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A saying my parents use to describe wet, heavy snow
that falls in large flakes and clings to everything.
A regular occurrence during the Maple Sugar Season.

I love how it dresses up the trees.

All are white again if only for a few hours
before the sun and wind release it from the branches.

Ice Fishing Derby aka Winni-Derby

This past weekend we went up to Meredith Bay to check out the Rotary Club Ice Fishing Derby. It was in full swing even with the 30 mile per hour winds.
1st prize is a boat and 2nd is an ATV.

This picture is looking out onto the ice.
Folks ride in on snow machines, drive on with SUV's and ATV and set up house.

Looking down the lake with Church Landing Resort on the right you have a "modern" bob-house. Most folks just build something crude out of plywood and scraps, some have tents, and others drag some old shed out onto the ice and leave it until spring. It was sunny but windy and we saw two bob-houses break free of their tethers and blow and tumble down the lake.

There are different categories and this is a shot of the smallest type of fish caught.
Other fish were yellow perch, cusk, brook trout, and rainbow trout.

Icicle defined.

A pendent,
and
usually
conical,
mass of ice,
formed by
freezing of
dripping water;
as,
the icicles on
the eaves of a house.

On My Snow Shoes

Snow shoe path, originally uploaded by addvt2nh.

Out and about this morning on my snow shoes.
I love to get out on my snow shoes and this morning with 12 inches of fresh powder from this weekend was great.

Blue sky breaking through

Blue sky breaking through the clouds raised everyone's mood.
The power has now been restored. Yeah!
5 days in the dark was very depressing.
I am very thankful for the return to normal.
It has been a good reminder of just how fortunate we are.

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Taking notice of the little things.

On the surface things don't always seem to be as they really are.
When you take a moment and stop and look close
you might see what you've been missing.

White Oak Leaves come tumbling down.

White Oak leaf on Moss, originally uploaded by addvt2nh.

With a little rain and wind all the oak leaves are finally on the ground. I have raked twice already and now the lawn is no longer green but brown with a super thick covering of leaves. I hope to get lucky enough to have a great big wind gust come up and move them for me. Wishful thinking! I really do love to rake.

Wild Strawberry with a Light Frost

Wild Strawberry with Light Frost, originally uploaded by addvt2nh.

Frost has come to our region. Most annual plants have been killed by it. And most mornings we are now scraping it from our windshields. The temps go down just below freezing at night and most days are 40 to 60 degrees. The leaves are still falling and there remains a lot of raking to be done.

The days are getting shorter...

Savor every moment!!!!!

fall colors

I need to get all the eye candy I can now
because soon, too soon it will turn gray.

I love the winter here in New England but after the leaves
fall to the ground everything takes on a gray tone.

View from my desk

"My sorrow, when she's here with me,

thinks these dark days of autumn rain

are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare,

the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane."

~ Frost, Robert