Here's what my garden looks right now (click photos for larger versions):


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My part of the midwest has been slapped with an Excessive Heat Advisory: between the heat and the humidity, the heat index for yesterday and today was up over 110. Translation: stay where it's air-conditioned, and if you have to leave, hydrate continually and try to move as little as possible ( Read more... )

Friday I drove to The Big City and stayed over with
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After spending all day inside, I went out a few minutes ago to get the mail. It seemed pretty cold out, but I thought possibly this was just because I didn't put on gloves (hey, I was only out for a minute). Curious, I checked the weather ( Read more... )

It's snowing out: lovely picturesque Christmas-card snow.

On the second day of April.

All around me people are grumbling, and, okay, I see why, but honestly, I think it's hilarious. And pretty.

Oh, upper midwest, I love you. Never change.

There were thunderstorms here this morning, because it's late summer in the upper midwest and that means thunderstorms. I'd planned to sleep in after a tiring week. I woke up to a blinking clock and a room so dark it hardly looked like morning; one power failure down, n-1 to go. Outside the window: layers and layers of dark clouds moving in across ( Read more... )

Woke up early this morning to wind and thunder and rain sheeting down. Closed some windows to keep out the worst of the wet, then went back to bed and lay there watching the trees tossing and rain pouring off the eaves of the house. I love thunderstorms. I missed them horribly the year I lived in Seattle. Never again will I live somewhere that has ( Read more... )