There are Great Crested Grebes wintering on Hainault Country Park lake. The photos I took this morning aren't good enough to put up, but are good enough to identify the Grebes in their winter plumage.
... a sweet potato vine so I didn't have flowers to contend with. I am curious has anyone has tried wintering things like petunias and impatiens? I know they are not expensive but I just got the hanging pots nice and ...) and now I am going to see them just give up the fight to frost. I was thinking about wintering them in the tub room which stays chilly (unless I turn on the heat for a bath and doesn't...
... into a braid down her back or coiled on her head (a woman her age doesn’t wear her hair down). Lancelot could still make her feel beautiful, and Arthur made her feel like an old woman, wrinkling and wintering like Gawain’s lost fairy wife. But hadn’t Arthur always come when she was lost, and hadn’t Lancelot run away? Lancelot had run away, leaving blood all around him, and she, God, she-- they ...
... hear from you after first thaw. (Sooner if you deign to use Jeb and Ami’s letter-glass.) Sincerely, DG P.S. Azkadellia sends her love. P.P.S In all of the crazy goings on I almost forgot to tell you. Raw and co. are wintering down in Finaqua. You know how they don’t like the cold. Which I’ve never totally understood, but there it is. I don’t know which way they’re going to turn in the Spring.
..., this lack of stimulus could be a real problem for long-endurance space flights. In the wonderful book Ice Bound , the author Jerri Nielsen talks about "the stares." This is a phenomenon for over-wintering crew in Antarctica where they tend to space out for extended periods of time - not actually asleep, but not aware either. I have no great and profound conclusion to this little essay, other ...
...plant garlic, reposition the hydengrias now that the yew is gone, pot some of the shade garden plants and bring them inside, put a damn lock on the craft room door so the cats don't kill the plants winteringindoors, dig up all of the weeds and put down some mulch in hopes of keeping the weeds down next summer. I've also discovered 3 year old daffodil bulbs. I plan to put them down and see what ...
... spent the entirety of the calender summer in Ontario. If now-me was to go back in time seven years to twenty-year-old-me and tell him that he would spend his summers in Canada while wintering in a near tropical climate I am sure that my younger version would be pleased. I recall walking down Division Street in Kingston on winter mornings, the cold air stinging my throat and freezing my nostril ...
Title: Winteringin Wales Pairing/Characters: hint of Jack/Ianto, Gwen Rating: G Disclaimer: I don't own them, although I would if I could. Spoilers: None Summary: An alien hunt goes... unusually Author's Note: Written for day thirteen of redismycolour . Back to the double drabble... ( Wintering In Wales )
Title: Winteringin Wales Pairing/Characters: hint of Jack/Ianto, Gwen Rating: G Disclaimer: I don't own them, although I would if I could. Spoilers: None Summary: An alien hunt goes... unusually Author's Note: Written for day thirteen of redismycolour . Back to the double drabble... ( Wintering In Wales )
...many coldweather adaptations in the species I study, but most simply hibernate, which I suspect is a relatively easy trait selected for in cold-intolerant species.
The above photonic capture is a typical wintering nest, found in the shrubs near a small brook that bisects the eastern side of the Park. The bare limbs of trees and plants expose these nests everywhere, and they are a quite common ...
