Our place in snow
Friday, February 16th, 2007
Warren, Connecticut. I took a break from clearing the driveway to walk across the stream and behind the pond to take a picture of the hill behind our house. Our cat used to hunt on this hill and stayed out here for days before we saw her again, taking shelter in caves created by rocks. There’s a fox family living back here and we see an occasional bobcat come down to the pond for a drink. We see moose droppings and hear a call from time to time but have never seen one. Deer are plentiful as are raccoons and fishers. And, now and then a beaver comes by to eat a few young trees and backstroke in our little pond (more like mud pit). Skunks come down to eat seed from the feeders and of course, there’s a huge flock of wild turkeys back here and we can hear the big male do his gobble gobble from time to time.
It’s nice to have a few acres of woods back here, even if the animals really own it while we pay taxes on it.
Turning around 180 degrees looking back at our house from the base of the hill. There’s a frozen pond under the snow, then a frozen stream in a gully. You can see our covered woodpile, then the house, then the driveway from hell that I took a break from clearing, then the garage with the kayaks hanging off the back to remind us that the lake actually is liquid most of the year.
It’s nice when the sun is just about to go behind the hill behind me as the trees cast long shadows.
One of our many feeders and the apple tree it’s hanging from cast shadows on the snow.
This snow was so wet and packed that I could walk on top of it without breaking through. I spent almost all of yesterday clearing our driveway by hand, the snowblower was useless on this stuff. If I can get my sore and stiff body moving again today I might get a bit more done on it. It’s like cutting ice out of a lake for a refrigerator. Argh.
Lovely to see your home, surroundings and the snow Richard. I am in serious need of a ski holiday right now so the snow is making me smile! We have a had a cm at the most here in the Uk, and now it is just rain, groan!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Jon
Jon: trust me mate, you don’t want this kind of snow, it’s not snow at all, it’s ice. I used a huge prybar to pull blocks of ice off our driveway today. It’s amazing, i’ve never seen it like this. My wife says to forget it and just wait until spring. I’m too compulsive to leave ice on the driveway. Problem is, it’s a big driveway. Ugh. I’m sore. Beer time. Have a great weekend yourself.
hello Richard! very nice pictures!i have one quostion, how do you doing this photo frame ;] its like nice ;] maby source?
gedasg: It’s a class I’m putting on images in CSS.
1. in your stylesheet make a new class called “left”
.left {
padding: 4px;
border: 1px silver solid;
margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px;
float: left;
}
Adjust border color and margins to suit… Right would be a simple change of float and margins.
2. The image tag should look something like this:
<img class=”left” src=”/pictures/filename.jpg” alt=”picture of whatever”/>
Let me know if you need more help and good luck with it.
thanks Richard, its working! I insert one more line (”width=”0″ “border=”0″ />) and works great.thanks
hello. i have one more question about my blog theme. maybe you can help me.
how you see ( http://www.gedasg.lt ) content is right side, but if I go to inside post, like (http://www.gedasg.lt/2007/03/08/nelly-furtado-say-it-right/) its change ! i want to my content all time be int right side.
#content {
float:left;
gedasg: that’s a simple one. Eeach of those views is a different template, the one on a single post is called “single” I believe. Just change the order of content and sidebar in that template (and any others).
I am still not understand :( where i need change source style.css or smthng
gedasg: you do not need to change the CSS file, you need to change a template file. Here is a list of all of the files in my theme, yours may be a bit different but not much:
404.php
archive.php
archives.php
comments-popup.php
comments.php
footer.php
header.php
index.php
page.php
search.php
searchform.php
sidebar.php
single.php
style.css
404.php
archive.php
archives.php
comments-popup.php
comments.php
footer.php
header.php
index.php
page.php
search.php
searchform.php
sidebar.php
single.php
style.css
The file called “single” is the template for showing a single post. The sidebar is an include in any template file but where it shows is determined by both its float in CSS and where the code that calls it is in the single template.
The very first line of my single template is a call to include the header.
After all of the code that displays the post and the meta information about the post, at the very bottom of the page two two more includes:
A call to include the sidebar
A call to include the footer.
My guess is that in your “single template your sidebar call is higher up than that. Just move it down, just before the footer call.
Let me know if that helps.