Christmas 2010 :)

Oh what a year it has been!

Winterizational

Chickadee in my backyard! 


We got a lot of snow in Buffalo in the past week.  Too much!  We ventured out to Reinstein and couldn't get very far as we didn't have any snow-shoes.  Robert's a tall guy and the snow was up to his knees in some spots.  Reinstein has snow-shoes for rent for $2/pair but it was closed :( 

Oh, and yesterday it snowed a lot at my house and when I came home from school I was surprised to see a freshly snow-blowed driveway.  My neighbors are really nice :)

School is nearly over for winter break.  Next week is finals week!  It's uncanny how fast the semester is approaching an end... it seems like yesterday was the first day of school....  where has the time gone?  But I feel pretty confident that I'll do well as I've been doing well all semester long :) :) :)  Either way, I will buckle down and spend some quality time at the library.

Just wanted to post some updates for y'all out there... whoever's reading this...  anybody?

Wintery

It's been so cold lately... Yes, yes, I know it's winter.

I took this photo on one of my many late afternoon walks with Robert and Charlie.  I brought my camera along for the walk since I haven't taken any new photos in a while. 

I miss the three best seasons (spring, summer, fall) so much....  *sigh*... Winters are really tough sometimes.  I just feel so achy, tired and unmotivated during the winter months.  I realize that being in the house so much should actually give me more time to do things I love to do indoors, but it doesn't always work like that.  I'm the kind of person that feels inspired by sunshine, by chirping birds, by blooming flowers...  So when all the flowers die and all the birds fly south for the winter and when most days aren't so sunny, it's really hard for me to feel inspired. 

And though winter has its own beauty, which I have seen and admire tremendously, there are some days - like today.. that it's just tiring and moody old winter that seeps deep down in my soul and makes me feel sad, tired, cold and worn out.  The worst part is that winter stays so long...  

Alas, I will stop my whining!

 

New year, new blog.

I felt compelled to just start all over.  I don't know why, but it's one of my quirks.  Not to say that I'm going to start all over next year, but there was just something about the last two years that left a really bad taste and I just had to... start all over.

So here's to the new blog!  Cheers!

Robert & I went to the Beaver Meadows Nature Preserve out in North Java today.  It was his idea...  We were being lazy this Sunday and kept asking each other... "What do you want to do today?"  During Buffalo winters, there's really not much to do.  I suppose there's always a TON to do, but I think you know what I mean.

It wasn't terribly cold.. actually it was very "tropical."  43 degrees Fahrenheit!  We went traipsing through the woods... didn't see much, though.  I was hoping to see a fox... or something!  Something, anything...  but all we saw were black capped chickadees, a crow, and a single squirrel in a distant tree.  It's almost disconcerting.

I did get to snap some photos of some trees.

And a little screech owl in a cage at the visitor's center.

We'll have to come back in the spring or summer time!!