Update: Well it sometimes happens that Town Mouse and I post one right after the other without noticing.
We are both a bit down about the dry weather - but whereas my post is really fairly content free, Ms Town Mouses' has something worth reading — Check out my cute hummingbird pics then hop on over to Ms Town Mouse's post…
It's so cold even the pugnacious hummingbirds are taking turns, clustering around the feeder
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| Your turn |
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| OK, my turn now |
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| The south garden birdbath frozen solid. |
But the north facing garden stayed soft and damp.
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| I'm beginning to see a garden layout taking shape here. |
But of rain we have had far too little this year. Echoing Oliver Twist we ask Mother Nature: "Please, ma'am, can we have more?" But Mother Nature says —
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| NO! |
And really, with daytime temperatures rising to the low sixties Fahrenheit, how can we complain, seeing what other regions of the U.S. are going through weather wise right now:
Icy storm system wreaks havoc as it rumbles towards eastern seaboard
Virginia official warns of 'historic ice event' as freezing weather heads for densely populated north-east US