Thursday Morning
This is the third photo I have posted of this view from my deck. If you scroll down, you can see how wonderfully different each morning's sky has been this week. What do you see from your home each morning?
No one answered my quiz! Well then, I will. We are, in fact, closer to the sun in winter than in the summer, but the northern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun in winter, giving us shorter days. Since the sun is not shining on us for as long each day, the land begins to cool which causes our cold season. Can you imagine what it would be like here if we were further from the sun this time of year?
There are so many details that come together that make life possible on this planet--how could all of this have happened by accident?
Off to the big city ONCE MORE for some more shopping. Hubby in Wisc. will stay home with his stomach flu :-(. Although we feel sorry for him, we hope he keeps it to himself...
Blessings!
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Oh, sympathies to Husband in Wisc, and hopes and prayers that he is an isolated case. Husband in No. Cal. has a virus, and close friends we saw yesterday are rapidly coming down with an intestinal thing that has me running for the anti-bacterial supplies. I am tired enough to be ready for a small case of something that would have us sleeping and watching movies for days and days and days. BUT, we have my mom next door, and we are her transportation to the real world. She has chronic illnesses that would make being together impossible. The idea of Mom, alone in her little granny flat on Christmas day, has me praying for healthy children and husband.
My morning view is across a small valley, covered with oaks and manzanita, and you can see the ocean of fog in the Sacramento Valley just over a few hills. It is my favorite spot to stare and drink my morning coffee. At some point the sun rises high enough to create a ribbon of light on the hill across the valley. One of these days I will capture its beauty and post it. It always takes my breath away.
Sigh...need more coffee...
That was from me -- Diane in No. Cal.
I've never been to California. It sounds as though you have a nice view, too. What are manzanitas?
Jean
Here is some information I found on manzanitas (link below.) It is a shrub, and ours is the variety that has no flowers. It mingles with bunches of poison oak on our hillside to provide a privacy barrier with our neighbors. We live on top of a hill in Placerville, CA == a town between Sacramento and South Lake Tahoe. It is lovely, and we appreciate being able to be in the country here in over-populated and busy California. Someday we want to pull out all the shrubs (poison and not) and plant a vineyard. But, we will hire the grandkids to help by the time we get to it, I am certain (-:
Manzanita link: http://www.laspilitas.com/manzanita_arctostaphylos/Northern_california_Manzanita/Northern_california_Manzanitas.html
It sounds beautiful! Jean
Sigh... living in the DC suburbs means my early morning view is of other houses. However, I do have a bird feeder in the backyard. I have a mated pair of cardinals that are often there at first light. They are followed in short order by lots of tufted titmice. No one else hangs around for winter, but in the summer I also have nuthatches, mourning doves, wrens and the occasional robin visiting.
I hope your DH has a quick recovery, and that no one else gets sick. No one wants to spend Christmas with stomach flu!
-- JS in VA
The birdfeeder sounds wonderful!
Jean
We get cats in our birdfeeder, and I have been watching 3 or 4 eagles around the farm lately.
Thanks for the prayers. I am getting better.
Husband in Wisc.
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