But not windy! and not precipitating either, unless you count the teensy bit of snow that pretends to swirl around occasionally.
On the other hand, all the trees were covered with a thick frost this morning; we were guessing from fog that had turned to ice. And although we haven’t had any snow since last week, what came down last week is still here. It just hasn’t been warm enough for long enough to melt it all away. Until today, each afternoon some snow would melt and then in the evening it froze again, so slippery spots, including on the roads, have been an issue, along with mud in the afternoons. But today it’s colder: 16° this morning and only 28° now. So no melting/freezing to contend with.
One of our regular towhee visitors has no tail! I have not been able to figure out whether the tail just never really grew in, or if the towhee had a close escape somehow and lost its tail feathers as a result. There are the beginnings of tail feathers, but they hardly reach beyond the bird’s rump. That doesn’t seem to slow the towhee down, however, and the towhee has no difficulties at all in arriving on the porch and demanding its peanut. The jays are so jealous of the towhees! And no matter how many times I point out to the jays that there are far more of them than towhees; and they get 3 peanuts to every one that a towhee gets (since I toss unshelled nuts to the jays); and they don’t come visit me on the porch, either — they still bear a grudge. Oh well!