2025

AFTER NO SNOW FOR 2 YRS - WE GOT A COUPLE OF INCHES - THIS IS OUR DECK - AND IT WAS AS COLD AS BLUE BLAZES - TODAY, THERE IS A BIT HERE AND THERE - MOSTLY GONE - BUT - IF THE WEATHER FOLKS ARE CORRECT - WE SHOULD GET MORE - NOT SURE JUST WHEN - UNLESS IT STOPS AT THE COUNTY LINE - THE OTHER SIDE GETS SNOW - WE GET ICE - OH THRILL - NEED ANOTHER SNOW TO MAKE SNOW CREAM!

NC STYLE - IN FLORIDA, SNOW BIRDS ARE SOULS WHO SPEND PART OF THE YEAR - AWAY FROM THEIR COLD STATE - TRAVEL TO FLORIDA - WE ALWAYS KNEW WHICH ONES THEY WERE - NEW YORK MICHIGAN CANADA AND IF YOU WORKED AND WENT TO LUNCH - THERE THEY WERE - WE HAD A LIMITED TIME FOR LUNCH, BUT PEOPLE WHO HAD A CHOICE - WENT THERE WHEN WE WERE - OH - POKEY - WEIRD DRIVERS - OKAY - DON'T LIVE THERE ANYMORE - AND HAVE FEATHERED SNOWBIRDS NOW - SPARROW ON LEFT - JUNCO ON RIGHT -

got your Christmas tree picked out yet ? nice selection .. © All rights reserved RE-POST FROM OLDER CAMERA -- WITH HELP, THE MOUNTAINS ARE STARTING TO GET WHOLE - AGAIN - THE FOLKS THERE - JUST DON'T NEED PEOPLE WHO MEDDLE AND HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE DOING- IF I COULD LEGALLY ERECT A BARRIER OF SOME SORT TO PREVENT OUR NEWLY 'ELECTED' PRESIDENT OUT- I WOULD DO IT IN A HEARTBEAT!!!!

2025 2 PiP

..YES, I CAME ACROSS THE OCEAN TO MY PEOPLE HERE .. FRIENDS FOUND ME IN A SHOPPE AND BROUGHT ME TO MY NEW HOME .. TOOK SOME GETTING USED TO THAT HOT WEATHER (IN FLORIDA ) .. THEN HERE IN N.C. .. OH, AND MUCH MORE PLEASANT .. MY LADY, MRS C (PEGGY) PLAYS HER FRAME DRUM ALONG WITH ME .. I'M HAPPY HERE (THEY DON'T HAVE A PUB), . . BUT MR. C SAID I'M WELCOME TO HAVE A BEER

JUST ACROSS THE DRIVEWAY .. HER 1ST BLOOMS .. NEXT WILL COME LEAVES OF GREEN 2 PiP

THESE START AS TINY BALLS OF TIGHTLY WRAPPED DARK ROSE-COLORED PETALS IF YOU LOOK HARD, IN THE BACKGROUND THERE ARE SOME FLOWEES TO-BE THIS IS A SHRUB, BUT FOUND OUT THERE IS A TREE- KIND, ALSO. VIEW ON LARGE

BY MR CARDINAL .. PERCHED IN A DOGWOOD .. 2025