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We plant bird seed for the dogs and cats to nibble on during the winter. Roku in particular seems to appreciate having fresh greens!
Last weekend, I was playing radio in the car, driving from hilltop to hilltop, trying to talk to as many people as possible (it was a contest.) The object in the foreground is one of the antennas sticking out over the hood of the car. The Moon was irresistible!
Last weekend, I went roving for the ARRL January VHF Sweepstakes. It's a ham radio contest where you talk to as many people on the VHF (and higher) radio frequency bands as possible. 
We had an unseasonably warm bit of weather over the weekend and it was accompanied by rain. About 24 hours worth of rain. It stopped last night and as you can see, there isn't a trace of it left. Our storm drains are pretty much rated for solid rain like that. 
On Fridays, there is a community of bloggers who post a photo of the sky. Here's mine, a hazy, wispy, not-quite-cloudy but not-quite-sunny sky.
We were out playing and I snapped this quick one. OK, I was shoveling and he was playing. He built a snow fort and stood ready to defend it from all evildoers. Like a parent. Who just might be dumping shovels full of heavy snow near to his fortress... Hmmm.
It's January, so we see a fair amount of cloudy days here. Some days though, we get a reminder that our nearest star is still hard at work. Some days the clouds work harder!
The sun is barely above the horizon. It rises off of the left side of the frame. I was going to walk down to the cemetery at the end of the street, but there are trees blocking the horizon there too. So in the end, I decided to try to capture the street in the half light. Before the sun lights it up, before the people are off to work. Those early morning moments of stillness.
I thought I'd give the on-camera flash a workout. Surprisingly, it came out pretty well!
Yes, an earthworm.
I haven't been taking many photos so I had to go back a feww weeks for this image. This was taken on a clear, bright day that followed a cloudy, snowy night. The contrast in my spirits is just as pronounced as the contrast in he weather. What a lovely sight to wake up to!
Just an ordinary day. The sun is out, which is a bit unusual :-) but the snow is mostly off the street, the school bus is picking up children and people haven't headed off to work yet so there are cars on the street.
It seems as if the skies have been a solid, leaden grey for a long, long time - it's so good to see the sun in the morning for a change! After Christmas, when the lights are no longer turned on, the amount of colour goes way down. Everything seems to be grey or brown. Even the snow is grey after a short while. Dust and dirt, I suppose.
Schenectady's population has been declining since our industrial heyday in the 1950s. There was a minor scandal during the previous decennial census which caused more than one city official to declare that we were under counted for political reasons. The official population stands just below 62000. New York politics is way too complicated to explain in a blog, so I'll leave that at that, but the upshot is that the city really, really wants to make sure that every resident is counted.
After being away for 20 days the street looks pretty much the same as it did when we left. Snow on the ground, snow banks atop the grass and grey skies.
I was away on holiday and got so caught up in the preparations that I didn't think to set up automatic posts for my time away from a computer. This is what it looked like when I left and it hasn't changed much upon my return!
