Animals Family and Friends Georgia: black lab Georgia Greensboro library snow
by amo
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White Stuff
I was starting to think it would never snow in Greensboro. Since we’ve been here, Greensboro has generally been at least a degree or two warmer than metro Atlanta, so even when there has been winter weather there, there hasn’t been any here.
I took this picture of Percy in the back yard right after it started snowing. It got too dark for pictures, but we got a light dusting that turned everything white. It’ll likely be gone by morning.
(By the way, those lights in the background are from our local library. Others might disagree, but I think we’ve got one of the best locations in town!)
‘Twas The Night Before Christmas
‘Twas the night before Christmas,
And all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring,
They were asleep on the couch!
Rosemary and Percy
(Jefferson Otwell, 2007)
Blue Jays Beat Blogging Hands Down
For some reason, this is by far the most popular page on my web site. I can’t explain it, but I can tell you that a couple of foreign language search engines list it early in their results of a search for “birds.” The image was also being used (bandwidth theft) by an Arabic language web site, though I think I put a stop to that.
Here’s the story behind the photo: I was renting an apartment above a garage a few years ago, and there was a tree just off of my deck/landing at the top of the stairs. I went out of town for a week or so, and when I came back I was surprised to see a bird nest in the tree, within 4 or 5 feet of my deck railing. I’m sure they were surprised to see me, too, but the parents stuck around, the eggs hatched, and I got to see the baby birds grow up. I was even watching when the first one left the nest!
