Then, in typical Canadian fashion, it was almost like the weather said, "Fooled you!" and just like that, we had two feet of snow again.
    But anyway, regardless of whether there was grass showing or several inches of snow on the ground, I built up a good collection of pictures from January 4 to this morning.  Enjoy!

sure what happened, but there's probably an inch-thick layer of frost all over the trees--maybe two inches in some areas.  It's bizarre, but it looks extremely neat.

December 23

December 25
Not only was Christmas Day full of beautiful hoarfrost, we also saw a couple of moose, a Pileated woodpecker, and what I think were Pine Grosbeaks (but I'm not 100% sure, so don't quote me on that).  Whatever they were, they were very pretty birds!

Happy 2026!

    There are some pretty big drifts across the road, too.  I nearly got my car stuck in one of them this morning--that's the first time that's happened!
    The pictures today consist just of the Christmas lights, the snow and drifts, a sunset . . . and one picture of fat little Ivy, just because.

Then I heard Caroline calling me from the patio door.  "Leah, come and look at this!  Hurry!"
    So I headed out there and saw not just green northern lights, but bright, vivid red ones as well!  I have never seen red aurora borealis that bright before.
    It looked like we would probably be able to see them better if we ran up the road a ways so that we were out from behind the shield of trees, so I grabbed my camera and Caroline and I took off up the road.  When we got out from behind the trees, we could see the whole long ribbon of red from the northwest--as well as swirling green to the east-southeast of us.  It was incredible!  And the streak of red was meeting in a starburst pattern directly above our heads, which was beautiful as well.
    I was snapping pictures left and right.  I apologize for the fuzzy quality of these pictures (my camera is really old and doesn't take great night shots), but at least you can see the colours, which is more than I can say for the last few times I tried taking pictures of the northern lights.
    Did anyone else have the privilege of seeing that beautiful display?  Let me know in the comments!

    It snowed from about 6AM to 4PM yesterday, and when it stopped we had roughly 3 inches of snow.
    I might not have any pictures from the new wintry world, except that I was helping my dad with something in the garage, and I could see through the back window a mountain ash tree that still had its berries on it.  And the berries were now covered with snow, which I thought would make a very pretty picture.  So when we were finished, I went back to the house to get my camera and headed out into the bush.
    Like usual, one picture led to another until I had built up a small collection (including one of Dragon, who followed me into the bush and then kept winding around my ankles and stretching way up onto my jacket to get petted.  I finally picked him up when I was done taking pictures, but that still wasn't good enough for him--he had to climb all the way up to my shoulder and sit there!)
    Anyway, here are all the pictures I took yesterday.  Enjoy!

them actually dried out to the point where I was able to harvest the seeds off of them.  I think that was the first time we've had our own home-grown sunflower seeds, and the ones that didn't quite ripen will be getting hung out for the birds during the winter.)
   Anyway, here are those photos.

  So most of the pictures I've taken in the last month focus on the sky--neat clouds and the colours that the beginning and end of a day bring, but I've scattered a few others in here as well.  Enjoy!

I'll try to remember to get the rest of my pictures together for another post later this week!