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Thursday, January 17, 2013

January Thaw

I have been on an unintended blogging break. I had to move all my photos to an external hard drive, I was running out of storage space on my computer. After four trips to the Apple store for help I finally have them moved and can access my photos again, yeah!!!! I hate dealing with tech or computer problems, always a little frustrating for me.  Anyway, I can post away now that I have my photos back….

Last week weekend we had spring time in January, the snow all melted and we hit 55 degrees. Anytime the temperature rises above 40 degrees in Michigan shorts start to appear on people, over 50 degrees and the sandals come out. I even saw two tank top sighting!!! But the best sighting of all was the buds on the Lenten Rose in my garden.




I looked back over my spring flower posts from last year and found the Lenten Rose post from last March 17th. It is hard to believe that in two short months the little buds will be in full bloom and looking like these beauties. I can hardly wait!!!!




To me Lenten Roses are magical, they are the first flowers to appear popping out of the snow. But I'll have to wait for those full blooms appear because back up at the cottage the snow is back and it is 15 degrees. I'm dreaming of spring flowers and starting the count down to their full appearance. Have a great weekend!


Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Happy 2013

Hard to believe another year has arrived! We rang in the New Year up at the cottage by watching the "bridge drop" at midnight in our little town. The bridge is over the Pine river which links Lake Charlevoix and Lake Michigan. The bridge is raised and lowered to let big boats glide between the two lakes. We have seen this bridge go up and down a million times but it seemed special watching it go down at midnight. But I can't tell you how cold it was at 19 degrees and the wind whipping off the lakes. All I can say is burrrr…….


I could have used a little fur muff to keep me warm like this sweet little girl is wearing in this vintage postcard.






The holidays were nice, getting together with friends and family. My blogging partner daughter Andrea was home for an extended visit, truly the best gift of all. We relaxed but became obsessed by watching the first two seasons of the PBS show Downton Abby. Can't wait for the new season to begin, a wonderful show!!

In the next few days the tree and holiday decorations will come down. It is always a little sad when they come down but then we can begin the count down to spring and flowers…

Looking forward to the New Year!


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