Actually it was Ice first and then Fire at the Campground. We got Snow! I am told this happens every few years, but the same person who told me that says it is the most he has seen and he has been here since 1992. We had maybe an inch on our car and it was starting to get slushy on the street when it stopped snowing. We are at about 1100 feet in altitude so snow is not common. It was fun and reminded us of Colorado.
About 5 days later we decided that the ground had been sufficiently wet (over 4 inches of precipitation in February so far in 2009) so we lit the slash pile on fire. Actually it was so wet we could not get it started with plenty of lighter fluid, a plumbing torch, paper, dry wood, etc. so we had to come back the next day and try it again.
Valarie is feeding the hummers and other birds here. The other birds fight over the seed and I have seen as many as a dozen on our largest bird feeder. The hummers are like fighter pilots. They come wizzing by your head and they fight too.
For some reason this blog adds the images in the opposite order that I attempted to specify, but you get the idea.
