Five Acres with a View

March 22, 2008 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

March 22, 2008 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

Taken on March 22, 2008.

It may be cheating to say we live in the Rockies, but without a doubt, the Rockies start less than a mile to the west of us.

March 09, 2008 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

(We’ve had enough snow now, thank you very much.)

March 02, 2008 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

Sixty degrees Fahrenheit yesterday, and snow today. It was warmer when I woke up than it is now.

December 25, 2007 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

Peace on earth; good will to all.

December 08, 2007 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

One or twice each winter, we will have one of these weird gray days when the snow falls continuously, but the rate of evaporation equals the snow fall so there is no accumulation beyond an inch or so. As usual when this weather occurs, the horses are ignoring their stalls where they could stay dry and standing braced against the snow instead. Every once in a while I will look out and catch the horses playing in the snow. Hap is still a graceful creature, even at the age of 22: the other two, not so much.

October 21, 2007 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

With the temperature near 80F yesterday, I didn’t really expect to see this today, despite the weather forecast for snow.

May 07, 2007 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

Monday morning we were surprised to wake up to four or five inches of snow.  It melted away by mid-afternoon, and now everything is either very green or very muddy.

My friend Susan, the Neon Nurse, has described a new syndrome: Predicted Snow Traumatic Syndrome. I have been battling it myself. At least the weather was mild enough today that I could ride both Hap and Lily, since it might be another month before I can get back on a horse.

January 29, 2007 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

I took this photo in our neighborhood when I was walking the dogs on Monday. It seems to be a passive solar house: I don’t know if it is active solar as well.