i ♥ pansies!

pansies are so awesome: why are they associated with light-weights? my first flower box planting of the year is pansies! why? last year when the weather broke, i planted amazingly decorative sweet potatoes: 9 inches of rain followed by a freeze later: my potatoes were dead...so this year: i am starting with the velvety flowers that can cope with the unpredictable ups and downs we call 'weather'.

rainbow

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flood alert

i get alerts on my i-phone when anything bad happens or is going to happen in the dc metro area. right now, its a flood alert , and that is not good! all of the sand, salt, garbage, asphalt scrapings, car drippings, kitty litter, dog crap, and varied rubbish from the last few months of wintery hell will be washing down the sewers to the creeks and rivers, and finally into whatever water you live near. polluted stormwater overflows into our water supply. here are three ideas from the audubon naturalist society we can all do to try and reduce the toxic stew.

1. fix leaky cars

2. choose organic fertilizers, but don't apply them if your yard is frozen or before the big rain storm. 

3. use CMA-calcium magnesium acetate- for future de-icing ventures

here are ten other very easy household ideas to help our local waterways and reduce your carbon footprint.

this week's blizzard

well, its here! the monster blizzard of 2010 started at about noon today...it took a while to stick, but we have about a foot now, right before midnight. the previous snowstorms have knocked over three of my 'sky-rocket' junipers. before the heavy snow started today i tied them back and propped them up, hoping to save them from being buried under the two feet of heavy, wet snow predicted to fall before it's all over.

super fog

the rain ended and the fog moved in.

very pea soup-ish!

waiting for rain

 

nice day for now

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frigid weather

we received another dusting of snow friday. temperatures did not get above 30° today and with the wind, it feels like 19°!

the dog actually turned around to go back home during our morning walk.

new year's weekend on the chesapeake bay

new year's weekend on the chesapeake bay was a cold one...
but we all survived. the wind is still gusting to +50 npr and much damage has been done to properties facing the potomac river. it has been so difficult walking the dogs in 20°f with these crazy artic winds, especially with miss chase being 15 or 16 (she is a stray so we dont have an exact date of birth), but we did it...and it is done.