Have you ever known such weather?? I mean, we had 80 degree days in February, and it began looking and sounding like spring! Oh, I couldn't have been happier, especially after going through two weeks of packed ice and frozen towels. But winter was not over. February is supposed to be cold. Very cold!
Then comes March with more 80 degree days except there were three cold fronts which dropped temperatures down below freezing. Friday night, after a warm 78-degree beautiful day, we had a thunderstorm, a hard downpour of rain followed by another cold front. Woke up this morning to 29 degrees. Up and down! This is supposed to go down as the hottest March on record.
This little Carolina Wren sits atop the old cupboard preaching about this crazy weather...
After starting her nest in three places that didn't work out, she settled on this old rusty kettle that set on the bench on the front porch...
Good nest building site but bad location. Smokey and the dogs spend time on this little porch. I'm afraid baby birds wouldn't last long there. So, we hooked a chain to the handle and lifted the old kettle little by little until it hung in a safe spot...
Moving the old pot didn't seem to bother her...
Hopefully, there will be baby birds and warm days again soon.
The Carolina Jasmine is blooming along the dirt path...
and is spreading right along...
Jasmine in the cedar tree. Oh, and while across the path I saw what looked like a snake...does it look like a snake to you?? Coming out of the ground??
Another eerie looking picture, or at least I think so. A vulture on our raggedy old pier, soaking in the warm sunshine...
Well, that's about it for me. Hope you all, friends, are doing well. I feel ashamed for complaining about the weather as things can always be worse. I've been playing up at the teeny tiny greenhouse and garden...raking leaves and making things pretty. Will save pictures for my next post.
Smokey and the Bunnies. :) Waiting for breakfast...
afternoon snack of apple slices, kale, and a little carrot...
Thank you for stopping by.
Love, Henny
Henny, so good to see you. Precious says meow to Smokey. And she'd love to meet the bunnies especially with Easter next Sunday, so soon it seems. Especially after this awful winter. We have not had the high temps as you, but anytime it gets up above freezing a day or two, it just bottoms out into low 20's. That buzzard looked to be trying to warm up for a flight some where with better weather, lol. Hope you and Poppy have a great Easter Sunday. And the baby birds make it to fly high. Lynn and Precious xx
ReplyDeleteThank you, Henny, for the bunny pic!! And Smokey! And love the one of the buzzard warming his wings! Also glad you moved the kettle for the little Wren... looks like a much safer spot.
ReplyDeleteIt truly has been a very unusual weather pattern around here as well. It is actually very warm here today. I'm thinking with next Sunday being Easter, surely we are about to start hitting the days that many of us call the dreaded heat of Summer. that surely does look like a snake coming out of the ground...those things scare me! The little birds can build their nest in some of the oddest places and I must say inconvenient places. So happy to see your post today...
ReplyDeleteIt's good to see you again, Henny. This month has been unbelievable here in the St. Louis area, too. We've been up to 95 and 94 degrees on 2 days at my house already and freezing before and after, just like you have had. I love seeing the vulture soaking in the sun. When we lived in San Antonio we were next to a ranch which had huge electric towers going across it near the fence. Those towers would fill up with vultures sitting just like that one. There'd be dozens of them. We've finally gotten more into a pattern of spring weather and it's gorgeous. That jasmine is really pretty and I bet it smells great, too. I remember seeing some of your pictures in years past that showed the beautiful flowers you have by your house. Are you still sewing bonnets and aprons?
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