Sunday, January 10, 2010

Craggy Meets Snow

Yes, we're still getting snow. But it's fine with me. This is the time of year we are supposed to get snow. And it provides a blacket, literally, to cover all of my perennials and the "winter garden" that I planted last October.

We are snug and warm in our little Cape Cod style house, you saw it in the last post. I'm painting one of the bedrooms this weekend. Both bedrooms, the hallway and the living room were painted some kind of drab tan. It wasn't even a pretty tan. The paint was in good shape but it's just not my color. The problem with painting in the winter is that the air is so dry. I'm using Sherwin Williams low VOC paint which has very little odor at all and that dissipates in about an hour. The problem is that the air is so dry paint in my tray also dries very fast and I was getting chunks of rubbery gunk on the roller from of the sides and/or bottom of the tray. But I'm managing.

But I didn't intend to talk about painting today. I was to show off our snow.

Here's a photo of Craggy our cement garden-art Cairn Terrier, taken last summer.


This one was taken January 3... my birthday.


And finally, here he is (or isn't) again yesterday.


I do realize that this snow is nothing compared to folks who live in Minnesota or New Hampshire or most of Canada, but this is the first time I've lived in a locale that gets this much snow since I was in the third grade and I'm loving it.

Sunday, January 3, 2010

New Year, New Birthday, Hidden Gardens

Happiness is having a birthday on a sunny, snowy day with a snug, warm, cozy house to live in and a husband who loves me!!! I'm a lucky girl!

Here's the house as it looks today.


A bit different from last summer. I was going to put a link here to the house last summer, but I can't find one. :-(

Here's my front north garden today.

Compare it to last summer.


Here is my front south bed today.

And same bed last summer.


I really love the changing of the seasons. Now I can hardly wait for the first little new green things to start appearing. No, I'm not wishing my life away... certainly not at my age. I just love life and I love watching it!