It's cold here. The foot of snow from weeks ago hasn't melted. I don't usually pay any attention to wind chill numbers. That's mostly hype the forecasters use to make winter weather sound more extreme and dramatic. I have to admit, when they start talking about wind chills at 25 degrees below zero, you have to pay attention to that. When we get a long running streak of weather like this, I start to blame my ancestors. Why in the world didn't they settle in some nice coastal climate?
It's northern Illinois and it's winter and it could be worse. We just need to get through the rest of February and the first three weeks of March.
Here are scenes from around the farm. Can you guess what the first picture is?
Below the yard north of the house
Below the pasture east of the house.
Actual temperatures below.
12 comments:
Brrrrr. I feel your pain. We only have about 8" of snow but it won't melt any time soon. We will just have to grin and bear it. :)
I have no idea what that first picture is. Perhaps a leftover fruit of some kind? It's cold here too and I am in the south. Brrrr
That looks might cold! We're having unusual weather here in Oregon too but for us that means we're getting sun and warm temps instead of rain. I'll take it!
We don't have all the snow you have--it seems like every snow storm this winter just skirted our area. But it certainly has been cold, and it doesn't look like next week is going to be any better. I've spent the last two days mostly in bed with a virus/cold, and I've been consoling myself that it's better to be sick now than in April or May when I might actually be able to garden!
Beautiful scenes. Perhaps all of us on the northern tundra should focus on mind over matter. If we don't mind too much this ugly cold wont matter...:)
Not sure but maybe a seed pod from a magnolia tree? Probably not. I'm still dreaming of a warmer climate...
I don't usually like windchill either, but yesterday when I woke up and realized it was -15 WITHOUT windchill I took notice. Your yard is beautiful! I don't know what that first photo is...at first I thought it was a macro of a crabapple, but I don't think that's right....a frozen apple?
Is that a rose hip in the first picture?
It looks beautiful there but very cold.
Is it a frozen zinnia?
How is your cat doing by now? You were nice to take it in.
It is even colder here, but we have the same blanket of snow. I look forward to spring, but at this point I'd settle for warmer temperatures.
Looking forward to spring too. It's just about here, I can hear it and smell it.
Sounds and looks much like here.
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