more warmth
Nov. 27th, 2006 02:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelidonFirst of all, I was so seriously blessed to be able to wiggle my toes in the Pacific and the Atlantic ocean within the very same week. I'm living right where I need to be, but sometimes I really miss living near the ocean, and it was lovely to get to play with the Pacific a bit last weekend. But it just hasn't sunk in somehow that my dad now lives less then two hours away from us, and is about 15 minutes from the beach, so, y'know, there's really no reason for me not to go get a regular ocean fix. And though on opposite coasts, the water near Vancouver and the Maine coast have a very similar feel this time of year, down to the ducks!
So after a household dinner of tasty turkey nachos Friday night and some late night carousing in the house, three of us headed off on Saturday morning for an overnight trip to the shore. My dad, who has become quite the gastronomique since retiring from the military, cooked up a "traditional" (very traditional -- 1700s colonial recipes) dinner -- no turkey whatsoever, but duck, lamb, Marlborough Pudding...yum. And he broke out the good stuff -- wines all 95+ Spectator/Parker, my god (Dionysus, natch) were they good. Anyone who wants to take on good food and wine as a dedication and devotion has my full support, so long as you invite me over every once in a while ;>
So after last week's pics of the Pacific, this week's pics are of the New Hampshire and Maine beaches and coastline. Apologies that I am too swamped this week to go through and edit out the duplicates, so there's a whole lot of pics of my beamish boy in there. For the bird-folk, I think the individual and pairs of ducks are Harlequins, and the larger flocks are Eider (as in Eiderdown), but I'm no expert in sea ducks...
Much less pleasantly, it wasn't just me noticing the extra-warm weather. Even up on top of Mount Washington, home to some of the harshest weather on earth, we're 7-8 degrees above the usual average for the month of November. It was 55 here yesterday, it'll be highs in the low to mid 50s all week, and it's not supposed to get back down below freezing, even at night, until Friday. For the first week of December, that's just unnatural. We're going to start to get mosquitos again at this rate... There's still time for this to be a good solid winter with lots of snow, but so far, it's looking like a repeat of last year's record warm temperatures. Hmmph.
So after a household dinner of tasty turkey nachos Friday night and some late night carousing in the house, three of us headed off on Saturday morning for an overnight trip to the shore. My dad, who has become quite the gastronomique since retiring from the military, cooked up a "traditional" (very traditional -- 1700s colonial recipes) dinner -- no turkey whatsoever, but duck, lamb, Marlborough Pudding...yum. And he broke out the good stuff -- wines all 95+ Spectator/Parker, my god (Dionysus, natch) were they good. Anyone who wants to take on good food and wine as a dedication and devotion has my full support, so long as you invite me over every once in a while ;>
So after last week's pics of the Pacific, this week's pics are of the New Hampshire and Maine beaches and coastline. Apologies that I am too swamped this week to go through and edit out the duplicates, so there's a whole lot of pics of my beamish boy in there. For the bird-folk, I think the individual and pairs of ducks are Harlequins, and the larger flocks are Eider (as in Eiderdown), but I'm no expert in sea ducks...
Much less pleasantly, it wasn't just me noticing the extra-warm weather. Even up on top of Mount Washington, home to some of the harshest weather on earth, we're 7-8 degrees above the usual average for the month of November. It was 55 here yesterday, it'll be highs in the low to mid 50s all week, and it's not supposed to get back down below freezing, even at night, until Friday. For the first week of December, that's just unnatural. We're going to start to get mosquitos again at this rate... There's still time for this to be a good solid winter with lots of snow, but so far, it's looking like a repeat of last year's record warm temperatures. Hmmph.
