On the news . . .

. . . .  tonight the weather comment for our area " 61 degrees and over for three days in a row is considered a night time heat wave".  The reasoning being is that we are not used to any heat overnight. (I had to laugh) For so may years now, I have have always read or heard from the experts that tomatos can be planted outside when the tempuratures reach 60 degrees everynight. NOT here! We have had warmer than usual nights for an early summer especially after last year (so cold, that the comforter stayed on the bed till mid July, it's been off the bed for a month now).

Rain, rain come again!

Summer rain, soft gentle droplets that are cool on the skin and welcome!  The air is warm and close, no wind at all.  Trees rustle and ping under the gentle movement of the rain, the dry grasses whisper.  Nature is making music, again.  If you stop and listen, be still; we are rewarded with beauty.  So outside I have to go, to take in the beauty that nature offers.  It's 11 pm at night, the darkness wraps around me with a feeling t=of security, yet I feel freedom.  Then the sounds of the highway break thru! Bah humbug, a very discordent,  human interference.

Rain, real downpour rain is desparatly needed.  June is usually a very wet month, not this year.   We have not had a drop of rain in July.  This soft rain is dry almost as it hits the ground.  Please RAIN!!!

I love our green cool springs and summers, so far it's too dry (also a recipe for fires).

Snow? ! !

We have snow (first time this winter), it started at 3 this morning and is still coming down at noon.  Everett was lost in a white out for a while, we probably accumulated a couple inches.

Spring has exploded!

The shades of green spreading across the evergreen canvas is amazing.  The young leaves range from grass green to lime green.  I wanted to pull over to the side of the hiway and stare, but my schedule would not allow it.  Our field of grass is about 3 feet tall over the septic and had a lot of wind today.  I watched the grass for a while and it's like watching the ocean waves, waving and serging.  It's elegant like ballet.   Right now, a heavy rain is falling hitting grass and leaves.  Creating a background for the frogs across the street, nature's music!  I love spring the most, even rainy days are beautiful!

Mother Earth News Fair

Went to Puyallup, Wa for the Mother Earth News Fair and in order of what blew my mind:

• the draft horses who logs with their owner - demonstration,  WOW, and the portable saw mill
• the fibers information - spinning, TOUCHING, absorbing knowledge
• the plate of sample cheese (I am still nibbling on) mostly soft with rinds Mmmm, Mmmmmm
• lecture - rotation of pastures, wow! so do-able.  (I think lazy comes to mind if this isn't incorporated into animal husbandry), this will be used in the future!

I thoroughly enjoyed browsing and learning new information, thank you SO MUCH !

This has been a GOOD weekend with family and sad because my son in law is going to Iraq for a year. Bittersweet, hard to wrap my mind around it and this will be very hard on his family.  I'm very glad we can be there for them.

We also went to the Nisqually Estuary with the grandkids and had a great walk with them.  They love nature and are very inquisitive.

Glories of Nature

November 2010

We have lived in this house going on 6 years now.  Visitors think we are so lucky, because of the view we have of the City across the valley.     I say YES, lucky.  But my eyes are looking to the left at the beautiful woods (2 pastures away).  Quite frankly the view of the City leaves me cold, I could do without it.  Yes, houses are 'sold' because of such views, silly.  The woods are ever changing and seasonal.  Even in the dead of winter they come alive.  The last few days have been good for the soul.  Trees are bursting into green, the sunsets over the City have been red and orange -  hints of the truly brilliant colors to come in summer.  I so love spring (and fall), even without the flowers, the shades of green are so fresh and bright, especially in contrast to the darker evergreen trees.  The air is crisp and cool, the sun is warm.  A very good time to get outside and work!  Our son mowed the lawn this week, takes close to an hour and a half.  Looks better now than the winter into spring shaggy growth.  We have neighbors who are fanatics and have already been out twice but I like to wait for a few dry days, makes the work easier!