How Does Your Garden Grow?

So much for the 70° F. weather we enjoyed. It's back to Winter for us. Oh, look! The month and the first numeral of the date is a 42! I haven't posted 42s in a long time.

This week, it's all about the Visitor we had.

Can you see him/her? S/he's camouflaged pretty well. Look on the bottom branch

Here's a better shot. It's a Cooper's Hawk (I think)

Cooper Oakensitter has spent the afternoons flying to his/her bottom branch of the oak tree, flying down to the ground and to another tree in the woods before flying off. 

The Eldest planted some Sweet Williams (Dianthus). They can grow pretty tall so I hope they have enough room

42 showed up again in the time and the date is a 42 palindrome

How does your garden grow?

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Dickie with lots of information. The slippery road warning when temperatures fall close to the freezing mark. Rain. The Full Moon. For a brief period of time, I got the humidity inside the house up into the good range. And a 42!

Jack Frost stopped by and painted these delicate, happy, little trees.

The squirrels have been busy

as have the birds.

The Watchers are watching something, but not me.

A red sky morning before the rains came.

The first big snowstorm predicted for today into Monday morning. Himself was able to get Samwise's controller to work and moved Samwise. There will be a little more fiddling to get Sam into the storm position. The cars have to be moved into storm position, too. That will happen later this morning.

The new bird feeders which are now emptied and will have to be filled

Then we can spend the rest of the day watching movies and eating popcorn because today is National Popcorn Day

How does your garden grow?

42

 

It's been a while since I've been able to post 42. I haven't seen as many as I have in the past. Maybe I'm just not paying attention. 

Harvey came through for me with not one, but three! Would it count as 4 if you read the year in the date backwards?

Weirs Beach

One morning we took a walk to explore the downtown area and boardwalk.  Laconia/Weirs Beach is a very popular destination especially in June for the annual motorcycle rally which as been going on since 1916.

Motorcycle riders come from all over. The top thing to do is to speed up the giant hill on Tower St. Even after the rally is over motorcyclists rev up the hill at all hours.

Fortunately for us, it was back to school week. So things were relatively quiet in town and along the boardwalk.

The dock for the Mount Washington and other tour boats for rides around Lake Winnipesauke.

It's a bit of a honky-tonk beach town at the height of the Summer. But because of Back to School, restaurants, the game arcades, and shops were dead.

If you didn't want a tour of the lake by boat, you can travel by train. Teague and I didn't do either tour.  By boat it's close to a 3 hour tour and by train 2 hours. Too long for us so we opted to go to the beach.

Teague found an auspicious parking spot at Weirs Beach/Endicott Rock Park. Parking was only $2.50 per hour. Cheap compared to the $7 per hour at Ogunquit Beach, Maine.

We had nice weather though it was a bit cool for the beach. This day was predicted to be the pick of the week. Teague said the water was a little chilly. It was warm where I waded in the sun.

There's lots to see and do from a beach chair. The Tiki Boat goes floating by.

I was surprised to see seagulls so far inland

Hang gliding. No, thank you.

A swan floatie made a break from a group of children

The tour boat, the Mount Washington returning to the dock from a tour

Ducks enjoying the water.

42 for Beltane

For The Hitchhikers

For The Hitchhikers