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Alright!!
Alright! After the georgous snow last night, I awoke this morning to find
the perfect snow that makes the whole place more magical and detailed. Every twig, branch, and detail was highlighted in white. Unfortunately I didn't get up early enough (8:15 didn't cut it, as it seems it went up to 35o F around 3 a.m. this morning) but what was left was more than adequate. I jumped outa the waterbed, grabbed my warmer clothes, found my boots and by then Rose had hobbled outa her spot along the bottom of the waterbed against the railing where it's nice and enveloping with the warmth and was all excited that we were going out. (she had to go anyway and waits for me to get up). Hat, down coat to cut the cold wind, digital camera. As soon as I opened the door, the dawg almost knocked me over racing out the screen door across the small deck that leads in and out of the nook and den door on the east side of the house. Snap snap of the digital, all angles, and Rose left me behind to race up and down the driveway like a lunatic dawg all pleased I was outside with her....she loves snow despite her apparent hip problem lately that makes her a three legged dawg lately. Once I became aware of things, I noticed it really wasn't as cold as it should have been. But with a down coat, micro fleece hat and muffler and fuzzy boots, how could I tell? My face and hands weren't cold......... I snapped picture after picture as I went down the driveway, the snow had already melted on the gravel, and the grass and ground where showing up where it had started to melt down, but on the trees, bushes and everything else it was a wonderland of details and mists. The sky has an overcast of soft grayish blue to it, and between the snow on everything, and that there are mists rising up above everything, the feeling was very ethereal and magical. Not enough winds to do more than shuffle branches and twigs, I could hear an occaisonal tinkle of my many windchimes back at the house, as I was making my way across to the electric fence to step over and go down the sloping hillside pasture towards those white pines I hadn't noticed so much before. Been here almost 8 years and never noticed that there were two huge white pines just over to the eastern edge of Miz Mary's, sister's pasture near the Lane's woods at their property line. Their detail was awesome. I took about 50 pictures, Rose crying and cursing me the whole time I was well below her almost out of her sight in the lower hillside pasture. She won't go under an electric barbwire anymore. She hates the snap it bites her with. Back up top on the ridge, I stepped back over, decided I needed to get some pictures of my directions I give out when people want to come visit. (go up Wine road, turn onto Niles which is a deadend and is paved, at the top, where the paved road ends and Miz Mary has the incredible view of English Mountain and Douglas Lake, take the gravel road around the curve, past her bounders that border the driveway, past the pastures on either side, thru the iron gates that are open, to just past the grasses, the large bushes to the house on the left with all the raised beds that are cheek to jowl constipated in perennials) G The snow was lingering in the protected northern portion of the upper road leading here, so I got a good defining shot of it, turned around and took another where you picked up, then walked back down the driveway and took on going pictures of the route and driveway to my home. Good defining, snowy shots too. I got to the Trumpet vine and forsythia opening into the western side yard, took a great picture of the snow on the chain link fence making neat patterns, and decided to see if any crocus were up and blooming. I HAVE MY FIRST CROCUS BLOOMING IN THE SNOW!!!!WOO HOO!!!! Not only that, but I have two tiny snow drops!!!!!!!! When I yelled in happiness I scared the shit outa the fairies and birds and got the attention of Rose who was checking out all the going's on of the turkeys, deer and coyote in the pasture next to us and came running up top barking and being all protective. When she saw I was just being a loon, she gave me a disgusted dawg look and went about her accountability sniffing. I took pictures of the snowdrop, and the crocus. Then of the lime spirea in the snow with it's very dark pink twigs and snow, then over to take pictures of green tongues sticking outa the snow of the daffs, and of the pawlonia limbs loaded with birdfeeders, on down the steep side yard to the sitting boulder I dug out, over to the scotch broom, down the steps Squire placed between the jack pines. Another picture of snow encrusted rocking chair I have turned over on its side to hold back the mock orange bush, another shot of emerging Red Riding Hood tulips tongues poking out of the snow (those leaves have burgandy markings), down the path next to the fence, oops, stop and take a picture of the pallet designs in snow of the second compost pile I am going to have to fix. (invasion of honeysuckle and privet, a three hour job at least). Turn around and take a picture of the UPPER side yard from the lower view, and on down to the woods where the great boulders are. Stop and take a picture of the steps boulder that Squire and I unearthed one day that are awesome and outline the last terrace ridge leading to the last past of the actual woods. Down there is an exposed fairy boulder that I fell in love with when we first looked at the house. While Squire was inside looking at the house, I was outside prowling around looking at the land. So I know that I knew what I was getting into when we first looked at this place G Two pictures of snow coated prickley pears I moved from the driveway under the acacia tree, one last detail picture of the fairy boulder, and my batteries died. Now all I have to do since I've already cleaned them, sharpened them up, fixed the contrast and minimized the size is to title all of them. I took 69 pictures...............LOL Two hours later the snow has falled off alot of the larger trees and it's holding at 35o F so it was fortuitous that I went out when I did! thanks for letting me share this with you. madgardener all silly and happy with crocuses and snowdrops up and blooming today.........up on the ridge, back in a slushy, snowy fairy holler, overlooking hills where English Mountain should be but the mists and fogs and clouds have obscured them, in Eastern Tennessee, zone 6b |
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Alright!!
"When she saw I was just being a loon, "
Tell Rose that this a compliment! Life is too short not to act like a loon!!!! Thanks for sharing your story. I love to visualize the whole story and I still can't wait to visit you some day! loony |
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