Are you more inside or outside these days?

Two layers of gloves, two jackets, but I'm out there when the sun shines and sometimes in light snow or very cold temperatures. I did so much outside until Dec. 21st that I did much of the normal clean-up and the mulching in advance. I'm as anxious for spring as anyone who has endured this past winter but can't let cool temperatures stop me. There's a definite limit to the joys of vacuuming and dusting!

Now I'm deeply involved in a driveway project.

1. I saw this online at some paving site and loved the look. I knew I could do it since I already had the driveway cutout...to save the big pine, which now doesn't look like it will live as we hoped it would.

2. The area we had (so you can see the similarities).

3. As of 5 PM last night. It takes two strong hands and a strong back!

I should finish by the time this Voting Booth ends and will happily post the finished photo.

Hi, Arlene!

Mostly cold here, too, now. It's warming nicely. I made a frigid trip to a local nursery and came home with some treasure. Heh! Take that, Weatherboy!

Hi Celia! The cold temperatures are so boring at this point. My favorite nursery opens today but I think I'll skip the trip! Glad you made the trip and scored.

We need to have a serious talk with Weatherboy! Spring should not be allowed to arrive on a sled.

Top two answers seem to be my response , Chose the second but thought the fourth also. today
#5 Is a fledgling Perrigrine Falcon sitting in the garden area , yesterday /.

Brrr!

That was up on Saturday, Juhur. Most of it was gone that afternoon. Nice camera capture!

Thank you , kwanjin , I pic'd that with the old key chain camera , my good camera that does close up''s was at the mall with the youngsters , wouldn't you just know it?lol still a good rare pic , I enjoy yours also , you do some real nice nature pic' s always nice to see!!!
IT is still snowing lightly here wind is mild now , earlier it could about pick you up and take you away 10 inches with 16 drifts , my my...

Thank you in return. Nice to know peeps are looking, huh? LOL

The weather has been utterly freaky and unpredictable, and a lot of my work with plants has involved carrying seed flats, starter pots, and tender plants inside and outside, depending on what it decides to be today. Also, doing some painting and carpentry inside.

Voted other because I don't mind if it is hot or cold... long as it isn't raining, sleeting, snowing. Outside it is!

Pretty photos Pirl.... unpretty photos Juhur7 ~ sorry... actually the snow is pretty while looking at it on the monitor.

And that is a hummdinger of a sunflower seed ~ Reynardine

HEY podster !! HI , YA ,, Trade ya places!!!!

Still very definitely winter here - the worst March for 50 years, in some areas the worst for 110 years. A month of non-stop icy blast straight from Siberia, and no end in sight with at least another 2 weeks of it in the forecast :-((

Look at the row of electricity poles snapped . . . http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21915774

More here . . . watch the digger half-way through! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21910180

Resin

I had to choose other. It's freezing cold and we still have snow on the ground but yet I am outside almost everyday at my job doing whatever needs to be done to get ready for spring. At home I stay in. lol

It's warm here most of the time - sometimes too much so. We have a year round growing season, so I work outside pretty much all year. I prefer to do my garden maintenance chores in winter where appropriate. Many days in winter are in the 60s and 70s here, while summer days are usually very hot. I find that most people, unless they have lived here, don't realize how warm/hot Charleston really is. Our weather is not like that of the rest of SC. My theory on this is that we owe our unusual warmth to the Gulf Stream, esp since our climate is much the same as that along the gulf coast and northern 1/2 of FL.

Just had two fairly light snows and a hail storm. Boo. The daffodils took a beating. I do think it's going up into the 60s and 70s this coming week so maybe spring will stick around this time.

22° here this morning and that coupled with a bad cold is going to keep me inside today

Today, it is about 71° and SUN shiney out, and I can't wait to make a beeline for the veggie garden!

I might plant some lettuce tomorrow , around 50 , might be nice if it is that is where I will be . A week early ,,two weeks too late,,, all is at the mercy of the weather ..
I didn't even say that again did I? goooofee!!!!!

It was sunny today but only in the 40s and still melting. 60s this weekend and still to wet to work in garden. Grrr....

Still winter here...final pic is one of our local greenhouses (normally we'd see vehicles there and they would have plants growing).

The frost was a wonderous gift from Mother Nature however...now that we are getting freezing fog we know spring is mere weeks away.

Lilypon,

I realize ice & snow have their downsides, but it sure is beautiful. Nice pics. Gotta tell you, a covering of ice and snow makes everything look so lovely, especially when compared to naked trees and brown leaves (what we have here in winter).

I agree DreamsOfSpring snow and hoar frost is beautiful but seeing it for six looooooong months, will be 7 soon, gets to be a bit tiresome (our climatologist said we'd wish it was gone in January but that wouldn't come to pass). He continued to say we'd still have the joy of its company for Easter and beyond. I hate it when they are right (never happens with weather we'd love to see ;o).

Mind you I do understand how ugly bare trees are like as we see that in the fall and again in the spring.

1st pic friendly fox soaking up the sun's rays (he is as happy as we are to finally have sunny days).
2nd pic my bird bath
3rd pic the drifts that are constantly having to be cut in half
4th a drift between 12 and 15 feet tall just outside my city (all depressions in the land have been filled so we now have Clipper ships crossing the plains).
5th pic Snowbird owner down South somewhere.....I hope they have someone booked to clear their yard out before they come home again.

hmmmmm Gremlins changed the order after I hit send but anyways I'm sure you'll be able to figure it out.

Loving your photos, Lilypon. The center one, posted earlier today, is fantastic. It's easy to enjoy the photos but maybe not so easy to endure living with it six months a year...but still beautiful.

Thank you ladies! Glad you enjoyed seeing them. :o)

I also love seeing the hoar frost but we are just beyond tired of this winter.

March is my absolute favorite gardening month here in Houston. Perfect weather in the 60's & 70's, clear skies, low humidity.... Ahhhhhh. I get 90 % of my yearly gardening done in March before it starts to get too hot.
And now is the best time for flowers of all kinds! Some of my favorites that I can only grow for about a month before the heat kills it.
Here's the foxglove, larkspur, nasturtium, and petunias that's going nuts now, along with my nuns orchid. My irises & delphinium are blooming too but I haven't got a photo yet.

So lovely! Please refresh me on the name of the petunia. I want to plant that one this year and was going to remember the name. Pfffft. :)

I'm jealous, rntx22. I've started seedlings, though, just biding my time here in frostville. It still gets 30 degrees at night.

Just to come clean, I voted "Nice and warm here, I'm usually outside", because the truth, "Nice and warm here, but I'm inside anyhow because I'm lazy" wasn't an option.


Lilypon: Love the pic of the fox. How adorable. As for the pic of the house 1/2 covered in snow, Wow! I think I would fear being buried alive during a snow storm like that - but, again, snow here looks more like the powdered sugar sometimes dusted atop brownies or sheet cake. Wondering how visitors get to the front door to ring the bell.

pirl: Love the pics of the work you have done. Very lovely. I somehow missed your post/pics earlier.

Still cold here!

I work in an office so I don't get to enjoy those few nice days we have had so far.

Pic (not mine) from Buxton, Derbyshire, England.

Resin

Hey Resin I was not ignoring earlier , I agree about the pic, I was taken with a key chain camera , the Kodak and Nikon were in use with the youngsters at the time . I feel lucky I got the pic at all ...
Pretty young predator that bird , sure was looking ..

Wow, Resin, I think that much snow would make me feel claustrophobic. Is that 'normal' for any of you folks? I really cannot even imagine not being able to see more than a vehicle width away.

My problem is allergy season with the tree pollen. I do have my prescription allergy meds, but my doctor warns me that I can overload them. I just shower off and change clothes when I come back indoors. I've come down with a cold now, so I'm going to have to take it easy this week anyway. I'm feeling pretty restless right now. : )

greenbrain, make some homemade chicken soup with coriander and fresh hot green chile (you can probably find the chile at a Mexican food store) - not jalapenos, although they might work, too - and I think you'll feel better the next day. Lots of liquids, hence the soup. Sorry you feel bad, and hope you're better in a day or two.