Frost Knot

A snarly knot of frost from Monday. So much frost it's hard to tell where it begins and where it ends.

Garlic

Those extra weeks of warm weather were kind to the garden however. We just pulled up carrots I planted in August, and cut down the lettuce from in the plastic greenhouse just last week. Mom said it was all delicious since I don't eat any of it I wouldn't know. The garlic is huge, even though it was just supposed to sprout a bit before winter. It got a heavy head start. Hopefully, that won't screw up what I get out next year.

December Sunrise

Just a chilly sunrise in December. Even with dawn being only at 7 AM I've been missing it for a few weeks. It's just so freaking cold crawling out of bed that early is almost painful. Those weeks of extra warm weather in November messed me up good.

Grass with Beard

More frost from Monday. There were several very pretty patches of extensive frost. The grass almost looked as if it were trying to grow hair. I say grass, but these were leaves from muscari bulbs.

Frost and Leaf

This morning's frost was quite nice in some places. The rock wall had some very nicely grown areas due to holes between the rocks funneling cold air. I'm fighting a sore throat flu-like affliction, so missed a few posts last week.

Fire

Sometimes I wonder about ways other than gas to heat my house. Fire certainly seems like a nice primal way to do it. It's freezing here so have some fire.

Last Year Frost

I did go out this morning, but there wasn't much impressive in the frost. Mostly short, no where near as ornate as it was one day last year.

Lights

Looking back at what I was doing today last year apparently I was experimenting with Christmas lights.

Butterflies Can Be Creepy

Butterflies don't look very pretty when you get as close as I like to get. Mostly hairy and scaly. Maybe I should zoom out a bit, but personally I like the details.

Holiday Cards

I spent the afternoon making holiday cards for family members. It only took four or five hours of running each card through the printer twice, and then going through making sure all the cards looked good then attaching the photos. 96 cards in all.

Ladybugs

The MOS butterfly room had ridiculous numbers of ladybugs prowling about. I assume they had some pest outbreak and are trying to control it naturally, but there were tons of the little guys trundling around.

Butterfly

Yesterday I went to the Day in Pompeii exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston. Since our membership will be expiring at the end of the month I went to the butterfly exhibit one more time as well. The one above wasn't well labeled, as all the labeling sheets only showed the butterflies with spread wings and this one refused to open up.

Sunset

We've been having some amazing sunsets recently. Kind of convenient that the sun goes down so early right now, though I can't wait for the days to start reversing back to longer.