February 20Bring on the sun…This winter has just been brutal, weather-wise and other-wise, as well, so today is just what I needed: clear, bright sunshine and 53 degrees at the moment, and if we’re lucky, we could go up a bit more in temperature. I hate to whine about the weather, because I know it has been far worse this winter other places – 2 feet of snow back in Ohio and Pennsylvania – but I am definitely acclimated to Asheville now, and normally, that means almost no snow and highs in the 40s, not lots of snow and ice and temps below freezing! Perhaps I should schedule a trip up north for a little reality check…or not. I think I’ll just soak up the sun today and cross my fingers that this is the beginning of spring… 10:09 AM GMT | Read comments(0)February 03Brutal day…Absolutely brutal. Started off with Mom confused and nodding off, has now progressed to completely unresponsive. Don’t know what we would do without hospice, but even with hospice, I don’t know how long we can keep this up… I’m not even sure if I dare go to sleep tonight… 8:10 PM GMT | Read comments(0)January 28Batten down the hatches…It’s a beautiful sunny day here in Asheville, blue skies and up to 55 degrees – we were out and about with no coats today, and Teddy and I had a good walk, which we both enjoyed thoroughly. However, it’s not all fun and games: the weather is supposed to get nasty, and we’re going to get some snow. It’s not often we see weather forecasts predicting 100% chance of snow – that’s tomorrow – and 90% chance of snow on Saturday. So we went out and laid in supplies just in case, extra food, batteries, propane, wine. I’m really hoping it’s all much ado about nothing, but we wanted to be ready just in case. After the last time, when we lost power for almost three days and couldn’t get our cars out for about five, we wanted to be ready. With any luck, the preparations will jinx Old Man Winter… 2:28 PM GMT | Read comments(0)January 19I already forgot the moral of the story…One of my very first posts on this blog was a lovely story all about the beautiful old tree down the road that I kept meaning to photograph, right up until the day they chopped it down and it was too late. A very clear moral there, and one I wholeheartedly subscribe to, except… I’ve just done it again. One of Brett’s orchids, a phragmipedium kovachii x besseae cross, was in full bloom last week, quite stunning, with a bright coral color and soft yellow heart. He took it to the orchid society meeting and everyone raved about it. Everyday I said to myself, you should get those shots, and everyday I put it off until tomorrow. It was entered in the Piedmont society’s show over in Charlotte and won a major American Orchid Society award, which is the big time, very hard to do, and I said to myself, I need to get that shot on Sunday when we go to the show and help with taking the show down. The only trouble with that plan is the flower fell off after judging. When society members arrived Saturday morning, one of the botanical garden workers was wearing the bloom in her hair. She said she found it on the ground in front of the exhibit – poor thing, I’ll bet that was quite a scene! They collected the flower from her, and clipped it back on the plant, but of course, by the time we arrived on Sunday it was a wilted, shriveled mess. The plant has another bud on it, so we’ll see how that flower looks, and I’ll get a shot of it, but it won’t be the award winning flower. Maybe I learned my lesson this time… 7:47 AM GMT | Read comments(0)January 18The mood also rises…Yes, I know, it should be the sun also rises, but with it rises my mood, and the sun and (at least a little bit of) warmth have returned to us, making me feel much better. Brett is thrilled with his new car, so he is feeling better as well, and that is contagious. Now all I need is some nice quiet time with my computer to process pictures, and I’ll be a happy woman… 7:16 PM GMT | Read comments(0)
This winter has just been brutal, weather-wise and other-wise, as well, so today is just what I needed: clear, bright sunshine and 53 degrees at the moment, and if we’re lucky, we could go up a bit more in temperature. I hate to whine about the weather, because I know it has been far worse this winter other places – 2 feet of snow back in Ohio and Pennsylvania – but I am definitely acclimated to Asheville now, and normally, that means almost no snow and highs in the 40s, not lots of snow and ice and temps below freezing!
Perhaps I should schedule a trip up north for a little reality check…or not. I think I’ll just soak up the sun today and cross my fingers that this is the beginning of spring…
Absolutely brutal. Started off with Mom confused and nodding off, has now progressed to completely unresponsive. Don’t know what we would do without hospice, but even with hospice, I don’t know how long we can keep this up…
I’m not even sure if I dare go to sleep tonight…
It’s a beautiful sunny day here in Asheville, blue skies and up to 55 degrees – we were out and about with no coats today, and Teddy and I had a good walk, which we both enjoyed thoroughly. However, it’s not all fun and games: the weather is supposed to get nasty, and we’re going to get some snow. It’s not often we see weather forecasts predicting 100% chance of snow – that’s tomorrow – and 90% chance of snow on Saturday.
So we went out and laid in supplies just in case, extra food, batteries, propane, wine. I’m really hoping it’s all much ado about nothing, but we wanted to be ready just in case. After the last time, when we lost power for almost three days and couldn’t get our cars out for about five, we wanted to be ready. With any luck, the preparations will jinx Old Man Winter…
One of my very first posts on this blog was a lovely story all about the beautiful old tree down the road that I kept meaning to photograph, right up until the day they chopped it down and it was too late. A very clear moral there, and one I wholeheartedly subscribe to, except…
I’ve just done it again. One of Brett’s orchids, a phragmipedium kovachii x besseae cross, was in full bloom last week, quite stunning, with a bright coral color and soft yellow heart. He took it to the orchid society meeting and everyone raved about it. Everyday I said to myself, you should get those shots, and everyday I put it off until tomorrow. It was entered in the Piedmont society’s show over in Charlotte and won a major American Orchid Society award, which is the big time, very hard to do, and I said to myself, I need to get that shot on Sunday when we go to the show and help with taking the show down.
The only trouble with that plan is the flower fell off after judging. When society members arrived Saturday morning, one of the botanical garden workers was wearing the bloom in her hair. She said she found it on the ground in front of the exhibit – poor thing, I’ll bet that was quite a scene! They collected the flower from her, and clipped it back on the plant, but of course, by the time we arrived on Sunday it was a wilted, shriveled mess. The plant has another bud on it, so we’ll see how that flower looks, and I’ll get a shot of it, but it won’t be the award winning flower. Maybe I learned my lesson this time…
Yes, I know, it should be the sun also rises, but with it rises my mood, and the sun and (at least a little bit of) warmth have returned to us, making me feel much better. Brett is thrilled with his new car, so he is feeling better as well, and that is contagious. Now all I need is some nice quiet time with my computer to process pictures, and I’ll be a happy woman…