Craving Spring

  caprese, originally uploaded by The Rambling Rountrees. After all the snow they has been dumped upon us, I am craving spring. As I look out my office window at the moment and witness soft white snow falling gracefully to the ground, I am reminded of how much I miss spring and summer. The winter [...]

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Absolute Cold

  today, originally uploaded by The Rambling Rountrees. Cold, dark and desolate today -15 degrees this morning with a -37 degree wind chill factor! That means COLD! Often when it’s cold outside and the wind is blowing, it’s difficut to know how cold it will really feel just by finding out what the basic temperature [...]

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The Day After the Storm.

the calm after the storm, originally uploaded by The Rambling Rountrees. Well we all survived, but I’m not sure for how much longer. Another 26inches of snow dumped on us yesterday. Another snow day! There is no more room to put the snow. In other parts of the world they are experiencing serious droughts, and [...]

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The weather is changing.

straight out of the maine woods, originally uploaded by The Rambling Rountrees. Cool days, and colder nights. Frost on the pumpkin. The scents of pumpkins and apples fill the air. Autumn is sure here now. The leaves are dropping, crunching sounds underfoot in the forest. Gardens harvested, wood piled for the winter. That’s right, but [...]

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April showers bring…floods

road closed, originally uploaded by The Rambling Rountrees. Yes, what you see is right. When I went to bed last night I knew the water was rising due to yesterday’s heavy rains and snow melt. Over the last two weeks the temps have soared up into the 70′s and the snow has been melting nicely, [...]

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Has Spring Arrived?

spring sky, originally uploaded by The Rambling Rountrees. Blue skies, what more could one ask for……

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a swashbuckling good time

The weekend has come and gone once more. Emma celebrated her third birthday in style as, of course, a pirate! She is a non-conformist by nature. The three hours trip south to the coast was long over due, but was hindered by recent said gallbladder attacks. Emma had a great time sharing her party with [...]

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An ingenious way to remove snow

snow removal I just got an email today from Laura “ro ra” my stepdaughter who lives in Japan. Apparently it has snowed there recently and she sent me this photo of the Japanese sidewalks with warm water flowing out of them the melt the snow!!!!! Leave it to the Japanese to have created such an [...]

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Happy Groundhog Day

I wish you all the best this Ground Hog Day. I hope Punxsutawney Phil brings us spring soon. I’m sick of this winter weather, more snow, sleet and freezing rain for the weekend.

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I need a little sunshine today….

Blackeyed Susan, originally uploaded by The Rambling Rountrees. Well the sun is shining today, we have had wind, snow, rain, more rain and now sun this week. Makes for an exciting mess in the winter. So I needed to remind myself of what flowers in summer look like. I love any sort of sunflower-related bud….so [...]

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