Our dawns aren’t the only big sky display that can be naturally dramatic around here. We do get what some folks call weather.
Tag: Winter
Ice storm as frozen waves
Along State Route 9 (the Air Line Highway) in Wesley, Maine.
The rugged, sparsely populated town does sustain some impressive weather, not always off the Atlantic.
‘New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday’
With that insight from English essayist and poet Charles Lamb, let’s consider ten more quotes befitting a new year.
- “You know how I always dread the whole year? Well, this time I’m only going to dread one day at a time” — Charlie Brown, Peanuts
- “We should celebrate every year that we made it through” — Ellen DeGeneres
- “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life” — Robin Sharma
- “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves” — William E. Vaughan
- “Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each year find you a better man” — Benjamin Franklin
- “It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets” — William Thomas
- “Many years ago, I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve stuck with it ever since” — Dave Beard
- “I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all” —Simone Biles
- “Celebrate endings, for they precede new beginnings” — Jonathan Lockwood Huie
- “8 p.m. is the new midnight” — unknown wit of a certain age who just could have been living where I do
Blazing fire
It’s made a huge difference, cutting our pricy fuel oil usage roughly in half.
Christmas Day in the morning
Campobello Island, New Brunswick, viewed from Eastport, Maine.
When there’s new snow
It’s that foot-tall wall of compressed flakes at the end of the driveway that concerns me. The stuff the city’s snowplows leave us in clearing our streets.
Not that I don’t appreciate having cleared pavement once I get out.
Scallops by the gallon
It’s how we buy them in season down at the dock.
They freeze perfectly, too, with none of the added liquid you get at the store.
In the world of visual art, crafts have a place
This time of the year gets her creative juices flowing. Not that she’s alone on that front.
To accompany our longest nights
I do find her enhanced natural style quite comforting.
Even during our briefest of light daytime.
Sleet and mix precip on the scene
We’re bracing ourselves, of course. Weather like this can be accompanied by electrical power outages.
Jnana's Red Barn 