The leaves are changing a little early this year where I live. Here are some pics I just took from my front yard. Too bad I waited until after all the clouds set in. It was a beautifully, sunny blue-sky morning a few hours ago....

This past week, my niece came to visit from Massachusetts and I had a mini-vacation. One of the many activities we did was take a hike and because it was cool-ish, we brought Sampson along. Here we are high up in the Green Mountains enjoying views of the Adirondacks. Mr. Muddy-Paws had found a nice cool...

The Lupine, Phlox & Rhodendron are already in full bloom. Usually that happens while I’m away at TechEd in mid-June so this is very early (lucky me I get to enjoy it this year). Considering that it was only a month ago that we had a spring snow storm , I would have expected things to be late, not...

Yesterday morning it started snowing and didn’t stop until about 3pm this afternoon. Heavy wet spring snow that accumulated to about a foot where we live. Luckily we didn’t lose any trees but the power’s been out for quite some time. Here are some pics from the crazy storm. From the road. See those shrubs...

March 17th and spring sure seems to be here already! View Full Album...

If you live in New England, you know we are getting lots of absolutely lovely soft fluffy snow. And it’s not finished yet. It hasn’t stopped snowing so we are expecting even more by the end of tomorrow. Rich and I went skiing in our woods and up through our neighbor’s fields this afternoon. Here are...

The sun finally came back out so I just took a few pictures from my front yard of the fall colors.  ...

Warning – pictures of poop! :) About 5 nights ago I heard a pack of coyotes singing late at night when I took Sampson out to pee. Sampson has gotten very excited about smells in our yard in the morning. My neighbor saw one in her yard. And this morning, I found some serious looking scat on the path behind...

Here’s a great picture someone took of our practice paddle (preparing for the Dragon Heart Festival in a few weeks) on Sunday. We are not pros. In fact, this is the only practice we get before the race. I’m hoping this picture is not while we are actually paddling based on the various states of everyone...

Last year I found three snake skins in the compost bin. Last night I found three snakes and one new skin. They didn’t like me taking their picture and I didn’t get it focused well, but at least I was kind and put the compost into the other bin. Note: In my comments I misidentified these as...