Bonnie and I brought a load of "stuff" to Illinois after the New Smyrna Beach show. I was there to winterize. What that means, I am not 100% sure, but, I did the best I could given the snowfall. I got the air conditioners out of the two windows and put away. I was supposed to do a lot more yard work, but, now that I see these pictures--I really like how everything looks with snow piled on top.
So, in addition to the first snow shoveling in A VERY LONG TIME, I also got to scrape my van windows--with a credit card since my scraper was locked in the Mercury with the frozen shut doors. I also caught a mouse in a sticky trap I had put out this summer for spiders. Poor dear was trying to drag the trap through the hole in the bathroom wall. He must have had a heart attack when I put him in a grocery bag and threw him out the back door. I hope he did anyway.
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| Blue Moon Cottage after the first snowfall, November 2014 |
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| The Zebra Grass with a dusting of snow! |
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| The view out the backdoor when I discovered it was SNOWING!!!! |
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| The next morning this is the view I woke up to! What a winter wonderland! |
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| The front yard--Bonnie and I trounced through the little bit of snow to get this picture. |
And one picture from Orlando on Tuesday, November 25, 2015: This hawk was just sitting at the top of the roof gable. I got really close and took a bunch of pictures and he just sat there looking at me, the ground, the sky, whatever. I wondered if he was keeping an eye out for a rodent or snake in the grass to eat! I also wondered if he was the hawk who ate one of the mockingbird babies a couple years ago. Regardless, he was a stately, handsome guy, don't ya think?
