 Cold! Our planned camping trip to Magnolia Springs State Park for the 4 day GA/FL weekend was cancelled. It was our only open window for a camping trip, and the first hard freeze of winter had to roll in. I wavered back and forth all evening and morning; one child in favor of going, the other against; but finally we cancelled. The forecast was predicted at 35 and 33 degrees each night; well below the 40 degree ratings of our sleeping bags. When we woke Saturday morning to an overcast sky and increasing winds, I knew I had made the right decision to stay home. Later that day, standing in the shade with cold, biting wind on outreach confirmed it. At the warmest point of the day, it reached only 48 degrees. I went for a 2-mile run and my throat and lungs burned from the crisp, dry air. Oh well, the trip was cancelled, and who know when the next window will open, but we were warm sleeping in the living room watching Pinocchio this evening.
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 William Wise Photo Nature Notes is a wildlife, landscape, birding and nature photography blog documenting the beauty, design and wonder of God’s creation. -- "God gave Solomon very great wisdom and understanding, and knowledge as vast as the sands of the seashore. He could speak with authority about all kinds of plants, from the great cedar of Lebanon to the tiny hyssop that grows from cracks in a wall. He could also speak about animals, birds, small creatures, and fish. And kings from every nation sent their ambassadors to listen to the wisdom of Solomon." I Kings 4  Male Ruby-throated Hummingbird; Clarke County, Georgia. August 14, 2014. Nature Notes, October, 2014: 10/5/14 – Wow, what a cold snap! The first of the year. This morning’s low of 38 degrees broke a 1974 record of 39 degrees. Cold and windy; a very abrupt change. But don’t be fooled, the warm weather will return again! 10/7/14 – It seems “Myrtle”, our Crepe Myrtle perching hummingbird is gone, along with the male and juveniles that fed at our feeder. But wait, one smaller juvenile pops up every now and then at the feeder on cool, overcast days.  Great Blue Heron; Sandy Creek Nature Center, Oxbow Loop off Cook's Trail. October 11, 2014. 10/11/14 – It is only 9 AM and I am actually perspiring as I sit in the full angled rays of the sun as it rises to my left. But fall has definitely begun to arrive. Yes, its football season, most people’s sign that fall has arrived. But God’s clock of changing season strikes “fall” in the changing of the leaves. The Black Cherry Trees are a mottled green and yellow. A few strategic patches of yellow are seen in the Sweetgums, while one large Sweetgum on the edge of the pasture has turned a brilliant red through most of its foliage.
No hummingbirds have come to the feeder this morning. Although it has warmed back up to clear, warm 80+ degree days, they must have all moved on. Now, there is only a large, intricate spider web bridging the space between the feeder and the adjacent Crepe Myrle, tracing the exact route that Myrtle used to Buzz hundreds of times per day. |
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