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Northern Kentucky is suffering through its third drought in five years.  The general weather pattern seems to have changed recently.  This area is usually quite moist year-round with at least 2” rain per month.

The grass is mostly brown, the plants are stressed, and some of the trees are starting to change colors and lose their [...]

Much to our delight, Jabba the Toad has returned to live another summer on our porch!

Here is Jabba in her very own toad bath.  Well, it’s not hers exclusively … the dogs also use it as a water bowl, sometimes taking a drink while Jabba is swimming!  But neither seem to mind each other, and [...]

Darby Dog alerted me to this snake living under our porch.

This looks like a hybrid between a Black Racer and a Copperhead, but I think it may be a rat snake.

I love the vibrant, almost-fluorescent green foliage in Kentucky in May:
 

It was cloudy all day, but moments before sunset, the cloud bank lifted just high enough to reveal the fiery sunset through the trees.

We woke up to an inch of snow Saturday morning, so we went for a long hike out back.  Good thing we got out early because most of the snow had melted by noon.

Theresa and Shadow can’t help but smile while hiking through the pretty snow.

Every winter in Northern Kentucky we get at least one week of very cold weather, which freezes our pond so we can ice skate and play broomball.  And this winter was no exception, as we’ve been in a deep freeze since before New Years Eve.

Theresa is shoveling snow off the ice on the pond.  Note [...]

We got another 3” snow on top of our 2” base. 

Darby runs through a puffy snow that stuck to everything and transformed the world into a winter wonderland.

We woke up to 2” wet snow that stuck to the trees and produced this beautiful scene in our front yard:

We were hosting a Christmas turkey dinner for 15 people that afternoon.  Fortunately, in typical northern-Kentucky fashion, most of the snow melted within just a few hours.
Here’s another look at the pretty snow in [...]

Our yard took on an eerie pink glow from the muted sunset behind the clouds.