Now we're back in working order!
Here are some pictures that I took, yesterday.
It was a "tree" day, for sure!
I had E-mail this morning from Jody Hildreth, who wrote: "I found some Pine Grosbeaks over in Sauquoit today."
"I put together a photopage at: PINE GROSBEAKS. Look for them around fruiting trees - especially crabapple trees. You can tell if they have been visiting by lookin under the tress. The Pine Grosbeak rips the flesh of the fruit apart only to eat the seeds inside. The fleshy fruit gets discarded on the ground. So, a tree with lots of small pieces of fruit undoubtedly has Pine Grosbeaks."
"I put together a photopage at: PINE GROSBEAKS. Look for them around fruiting trees - especially crabapple trees. You can tell if they have been visiting by lookin under the tress. The Pine Grosbeak rips the flesh of the fruit apart only to eat the seeds inside. The fleshy fruit gets discarded on the ground. So, a tree with lots of small pieces of fruit undoubtedly has Pine Grosbeaks."
A blog-reader sent this to me saying that he prefers the New York State style of Tree Decoration more than that of Florida!
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Here are some pictures that I took, yesterday.
It was a "tree" day, for sure!
And the effect was grand! Apparently the wind had been blowing from the NW and the trunks of trees at Hanover Green all wore white stripes.
These trees, on the S. side of Route 20 W of Pleasant Valley Road, mark the Buckley Burying Ground. There are several stones there, but the only now readable is that of Ezra Buckley who died in October of 1843 at the age of 71 years.
The ancient Elm on Madison Street.
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But today it all looks different; it's snowing hard!
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Even more at the Observer-Dispatch
where I found listed the
Sr. Winter Concert
- postponed until Monday at 7:30 P.M.
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At the corner of Barton and Putnam.
Barb was out on her regular walk, loving the snow.
Barb was out on her regular walk, loving the snow.
Now here's a problem - or two: asked by more than a few villagers to "do something" about this, I parked at the top of Buell Avenue and, while waiting for the light to turn green, I turned on my camera. I had intended to take a picture of the bright lights in Dollar General's window - the lights that are driving drivers crazy after dark, blinding them so that they can't see the traffic signal - but saw another problem, as well: cars parked willy-nilly in front of the store and using the (traditional) entrance to leave the parking lot. This pedestrian had a merry time of it, zig-zagging back and forth between cars just to reach the sidewalk safely! Getting across Main Street presented another challenge - again, because of cars exiting the Green Acres parking lot the "wrong" way.
We seem to have signs for everything else: could another pair saying "NO EXIT" and "ENTRANCE ONLY" be that hard to acquire?
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The Red-bellied Woodpeckers are here!
