Then I would have a good reason to stay outside instead of only taking a 10 minute break to go take some pictures! It's almost 80 degrees out… we're experiencing "weather whiplash!" We had a foot of snow two weeks ago and now we're melting. Yikes! And the funny thing is that it's conceivable that we could still have snow again until late April.
I wanted to try to give you a sense of the land here. We're at the top of a 3800 ft high foothill to the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. The peaks you see out to the right are the Great Western Divide.
The snow on the High Sierra usually lasts until around Late May early June, but the warmer the air temperatures get, the more moisture the air holds and the shorter our view becomes. All summer long we rarely see the distant peaks, so this is our favorite time of year for the view.
We're an oak forest area, and the oaks will bud out in the next month or so. Our hillsides will be filled with wildflowers by April. We have California Golden Poppies and about 2 dozen other wildflowers. They're beautiful to look at until it's time to mow the hillside!
Our property climbs about 75 feet in elevation from the street up to the house over the course of our 1/4 mile driveway. Our property was named "Quail Ridge" by the former owner and builder of the home for the hundreds of California Quail that live in our underbrush and scamper across the driveway everytime we pass by.
Okay, break's over! Back to my music boxes (yes, Angela I'm working, I'm working!!!!!)
Audrey Jeanne Roberts
Regarding your recipe cards, I was hoping that one could copy a recipe
to the card. Is that possible, or are these simply for printing? Thanks
for sharing the cards and your talent. Barb (note: Barb, The blank cards were designed for you to do exactly that. If you have a graphics program, you would simply open the blank card in that program, type your recipe into the word processing portion of your program and then save the card as a new selection. Then you can print the card and give it away with the recipe or simply file it in your recipe card file. Some examples of graphics programs are, Microsoft’s Digital Image Pro, Corel’s Paint Shop Pro and Adobe’s Photoshop Elements. All are very reasonably priced and http://www.daisiecompany.com has some free tutorials in each to help you learn them. AJ)