A Dead End . . .

I came to a 'dead end' today when it came to figgerin what to shoot for today's photo. So I found a dead end road. It is paved and is about a quarter mile long. No houses or building, woods on one side and fields on the other -- power lines that keep goin through the fields. Don't know if it is a county or township maintained road, but the snow was plowed. A couple inches of snow fell overnight . . . bout half of it melted today. It's been one of those days when it seems like I've photographed everything worth photographin. It will be nice once things start greenin up. Plenty of stuff to shoot then. Lookin forward to when there isn't snow piled everywhere and everything isn't muddy.

Ever hear of Blippy.com? It is a website where you can post your recent purchases for everyone to see. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me either . . . It is for real, check it out for yourself. Sounds kinda like Twitter where you can tell everyone what you are doin minute by minute. I better stop complainin about this kind of stuff . . . I mean, I blog a lot about nothin, but at least I only do it once a day, usually.

Did some readin on Poor Will's Almanack today. It seems that the dark Skunk Cabbage Moon is over and the Running Maple Sap Moon will be full on the 28th. Who names these things ? ? ? Almost sound like Indian names, but I can't believe anyone is gonna name their son Dark Skunk Cabbage . . . but then some of the names people are comin up with are almost as bad.

Poor Will also says this is the first week of the year that a 70 degree high temperature is a 10 per cent possibility. Kinda like those rain chance percentages. On March 2 we will have a full 2 hrs. more of daylight than the shortest days of December. That is always a good sign of spring . . . probably better than any of the 'named' ground hogs that were in the headlines a couple, three weeks ago.

Lawn/Gardening Tip

If your lawn is on the thin side, now is the time to be over seeding. Of course you are gonna hafta wait for the snow to melt. When that happens get some grass seed . . . I've seen it on the shelves of the big box stores all ready, and throw it around by the hand full. Grass seed needs contact with the soil to germinate. The freeze thaw cycles this time of year will do that part for you. I've done it for years and it does thicken up the lawn. I've re-done both my backyard then my front yard a couple yrs. later. The back is very thick which makes it difficult for weeds to germinate. The front is still a bit thinner than I like. When the snow melts, I'll be out there with my bag of grass seed.

Just sold 2 more flags. That makes 6 this week. They are going to Norway. If there is a Norwegian US Flag burning in the near future, I'm gonna wonder if they were the ones I sold . . .