Lately my days have been starting out exactly the same: wake up, have breakfast, get dressed, shovel snow. The shoveling keeps you pretty warm but when you come inside you realize the tip of your nose doesn't have any feeling and your lips feel like they've been given a dose of novacaine thus the title of my post: a slip up I've made on more than one occasion.
The bird is a Steller's Jay. They're related to the Blue Jay but we don't see many of those here. I think the Steller's Jay is gorgeous; the head and upper body are black and the rest is midnight blue.
My solar lanterns have been covered up
with snow. I like how they are like little windows in a snow wall.
A view of one of the mountains
behind our house.
Aren't these pretty ice crystals
on our back deck?
Another mountain view.
And now back to show snoveling...
