Winter is the Season of Rest

Flame Bush in Ice >>

Most of the plants have covered their feet with blankets of leaves and settled in to rest before beginning the cycle again. It's turned into my favorite season of the year. Oh, yeah, it gets cold, nasty, wet, miserable, hateful... but there's really not that many of those days -considering what say, the folks in Minnesota get to endure!

Yep, both pictures were taken in the same month! The ice storm hit at the beginning of March and by the end of March, Spring was in full bloom!

Season changes seem to change in the blink of an eye! One day you're looking at the heart of Winter, white fluffy stuff is falling from the sky and you're simmering a pot of soup on the back burner; the next day you're just as likely to be wishing you'd never worn that jacket and think you'll have to turn the air conditioner on! You never put away "seasonal" clothes, you keep 'em where they're handy! ;o) You're just as likely to need those sweat suits in July as you are to need those shorts & tee in January!

The fur kids absolutely love Winter - especially snow falls! It's the only time I open the door and let them go! And boy, do they ever GO! LOL

These beauties were blooming in the courtyard

23 February 1991

02 January 2002

This was, at least for me!, a delightful snow storm. I gathered up The Girls and my camera and headed into Realm Woods, whooping and grinning my way through the falling snow.

The creek as it comes into and meanders through

The Realm

The Midway and North peninsulas

My little creek meanders along the bottom of the ravine and has created several small peninsulas, these are two of them. The South peninsula is where the Pinxter Flower lives and it's already beginning to show fat little buds (in January)!

After the snow left, the cold set in and left the ivy touched with frost.