Snow for Christmas, and the start of the snow year!

Merry Christmas! God bless!

The first few pics other then the guard dog are from a couple of days ago.  A skiff of snow and everything looking good, ground has been frozen, but I have been able to pick a few rocks from the surface for hardscaping the dry creek with.

The very next day and all my landscaping comes to a screeching halt!  3-4 inches of snow changes everything, and I am having a hard time not blurting out how badly winter sucks!  There I said it!  I was trying hard not to say that this year, this year was going to be different.  Ha!  

Dogvader (Rocho)

Ringneck Dove, Streptopelia risoria?

Not native, but they help bring in the Morning Doves.

American Gold Finch

Plants Doing good after a lite snow dusting.

Agave utahensis var. kaibabensis

So far so good!

I forgot what this one was?

 Echinocereus sp.  New trial

Yucca rostrata

Yucca rostrata

Yucca brevifolia

This a close up of my biggest Yucca elata, look how hairy this one is.

A small Yucca brevifolia, I never got around to cover it.

The next day!

Yucca faxon

Yucca baccata

Third snow of the year.

Lizard time!

So far it has been a decent winter, but nothing too right home about.  Other than the lack of snow, which is not all that uncommon until after Christmas it has been about normal. 
I dread the next 20 days the most because this is when we are most likely to see temps dip below the 0 fahrenheit range.  About the last 10 days in December and the first 10 days in January.

Even though it has not set any record warmth this winter, I was able to find this sidebltched lizard on the foudation on the southside of the house.  I have seen them around here in November, but never in December.  I'm sure they have been out in December before, but without notice!     

I belive this was on 12/11/12

I think it was about 40deg f.

Snow in the mountains, and shortly after this pic was taken it snowed about an inch or 2 in the valley 

 

I hope too see the brush to grow back one day.

Late post, sorry.

I think this is the latest I have seen a tree frog around here

11-24-12

Up dates on the covering of the berm and the dry creek. 

And construction of a new mound.

A new person in the world

My wife is pregnant, and so we are blessed!  Thank you God!

A pic of a pic.

8-9weeks?

PS.  I have used up all my photo space, I am trying to get more.  Will be posting soon.