Brown Christmas

Turned out we officially had a brown Christmas this year. It's our first since 2006. Photo taken in front of a neighborhood Lutheran church.

New Year's Eve

We were supposed to have a high of 40 today. As you can see in the picture there is still no snow on the ground. Pretty odd for New Year's Eve.

The Day After Christmas

50 degrees today. Yikes. It was beautiful but this is kind of scary for December. We're actually beginning to increase in daylight. 8 hours and 48 minutes today. With it being so warm I decided to drain the hose which is something I meant to do last month.

Christmas Morning

Today is a very sunny and brown Christmas. Total daylight is still 8 hours and 47 minutes.

Daylight

I checked the newspaper and it looks like we've got 8 hours and 47 minutes of daylight for both yesterday and today. The photo shows the evening sky looking west from the side of our house.

Longest Night

Winter arrives at 11:30 tonight. This will be the longest night of the year.

The Work of Squirrels?

Some of the garland on the winter greenery is coming undone. The work of squirrels?

Got Home Early

Unusually warm for December. Got home a bit earlier than usual so I snapped a photo being it was still light. Photo taken at 4:42 p.m.

Raking the Roof

First time raking the roof this season. Dale snapped these photos of me.

Snow Yesterday

Got about 3 inches.

Holiday Greenery

1st Day of Meteorological Winter

The backyard on Dec. 1.

Snow! How appropriate for the first day of winter! We'll see how meteorological winter turns out. Meteorological fall was dry and warm and I've heard we're almost 6 inches behind normal rainfall.