Since I broke my ankle almost eight weeks ago, the only thing that salvaged at least 80% of the vegetable garden was our son, Tim, coming over for a few hours every day and pulling up weeds and harvesting. In the 10 days after the accident, before he got started on it, the garden was almost completely overrun… Read More »
Steady rain came through from the wee hours on into morning, finally letting up right after dawn. Here are some shots of birds coming for their morning feed on our upper deck, looking a little more bedraggled than usual. It was fascinating to see them this way close up. Note the first photo, which is a fledgling Redbelly… Read More »
We are on the northern edge of a stalled weather front that runs from Texas / Oklahoma right up the Ohio River Valley. For the past five days we have experienced one low pressure wave after another, bringing either violent weather with thunder storms and even some tornadoes, but mainly very heavy rainfall. I checked the NOAA web… Read More »