Beginning of the Cold.

12-1-11 VERMONT: Now it’s beginning to feel like December. We drove up yesterday through the end of the rain, and woke this morning to 30°. After a week of sixties, it felt colder than it should have. I did a few odds and ends outside and had to come in to warm up. We are totally non-acclimatised to the cold.

Things are still wet here with puddles in the pasture and yard and the ponds full and draining. It is an almost cloudless day with a slight breeze and got up to about 40 this afternoon.

With the leafless trees and empty beds, everything has a neat and orderly and inert appearance. All our herbaceous friends seem to be sleeping until March.

We have dinner tonight with Debbie and John, tomorrow, after the tree-lighting/Glee Club, with Denny and Laura-Beth and Saturday with Ken and Jane.


Evening sky yesterday.