Harbingers too

The robins were hopping and fluttering and chasing each other 

around the back yard this morning.

Turdus

This one is performing a one-legged balancing act.

Harbingers

Crocus

Galanthus

Narcissus

Winter Sunlight

What's happened at Heck Creek so far

We purchased the land in October, 2010--

42 acres of steep hillside in Madison County, NC.

Our big white oak and decrepit shed down by the creek

Summer 2011 we hired the father-son team of William and Edwin 
to install a culvert so we could get across Heck Creek, 
put in a driveway to the house site, excavate the house basement and 
install a sewer system.  

Ralph views the culvert

Edwin does the initial clearing of the driveway

Driveway grading

Robyn, Ralph and Rhiannon in the basement

Summer 2012 the well was dug,

Well-drilling truck

Ralph at the well head

 and the electric line run underground up the driveway.

The electric box

So now all we need to do is build the house!

 

 

End of February

Quercus

Salix

Picea

We haven't had much snow the last few winters here in MO.  Maybe an inch or so here and there, but mostly ice and freezing rain.  The snowfall this week at about 3 inches is the largest in some time.  It was a wet, heavy snow that clung to the trees.

Zenaida

Happa says....

"I have inspected these tiles and approved them for use

in the House above Heck Creek."

Imbloc

I went searching for snowdrops and found none.

Only a frozen daffodil in a sunny spot in the backyard.

End of January

Quercus

Salix

Cercis

There were robins in the backyard today.

It was 74 degrees on Monday.  Tonight's predicted low is 10 degrees.

Zenaida