Now It's Warm Again.

12-4-12 SHORT HILLS: We came back to NJ on Sunday, driving through dense fog that gradually lightened up as we got further and further south. By mid afternoon, we were back here and the sun was out and it was warm enough to hose the Vermont mud off the Subaru.

Yesterday it was in the sixties and pleasant outside in shirtsleeves. That last snow was completely gone, and I did the clean up. A few bamboo stalks were broken by the storm, and I cut down a sprawling dead yew tree and the remnant of a dead rhododendron. All of it went to the dump in one big carload. Today is another warm one as we close in on the winter solstice. The xmas tree, a balsam fir, seems happy in the living room.

The NYT reported yesterday that the atmospheric CO2 levels were up significantly in 2011 and will also be so for 2012.


How to deal with temps in the teens, the hood is off only for the pic by phototog Judy.

Mt. Moosilauke looking quite white on top.