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Beautiful Snow

4 inches?

Before the Snow

Before the snow comes, the birds come to the feeders and stock up. I wish I had more thistle seed for the goldfinches.

Junco

White-throated sparrow, juvenile to 1st winter plumage

White-throated sparrow, 1st winter. I always thought these were females.

White-throated sparrow, adult

Around and about

New Meeting House Road

Narcissus at Abington

Art work on display in Abington House

Library jigsaw puzzle

A bit of the Lobby Art Show for January.

Road construction

There appears to be path through the woods where the new Meetinghouse Road will go, to join Rte 202.

Shrubs will soon be gone.

Beehives

In the warm weather on Saturday, the beekeeper made the rounds of the hives. Both the upper hives were dead and the boxes removed. The bottom hives looked good.
They reported that they learned from this past year that making splits during a drought does not work very well. Bees make "special" bees in the fall, bees that have a different physiology than do summer bees. Likely, despite our feeding them sugar syrup, they were not able to raise a full quota of fall bees, bees that overwinter well into spring. Hopefully, our remaining hives will make it through the winter.

What looks like show, has really melted and refrozen and it hard and icy.

Happy New Year

As we enjoyed our "surf and turf" , New Year's Eve dinner --

I could not help but think of the year ahead --

Looking forward to the new Meeting House Road

Hoping that this year something will be done about the "eyesore".

Thinking about the good things to come after the winter.