Life in Antrim

The first frost of Autumn 2005...

I'm not out of shorts yet...but today was the first day since spring we've had frost on the ground. I took this photo quickly stopped on the side of Elm Avenue (coming back from an almost daily run to Dunkin' Donuts)...

40 days and 40 nights...

Okay, so it hasn't quite been 40 days and 40 nights, and nobody has encouraged me to go on an ark :-)

However, it was big news last weekend how there was a bunch of flooding in New Hampshire. It affected all around us, but didn't hit Antrim very badly.

Well, that's no longer true thanks to this weekend's heavy rains. The photos (in order) are of our closed road (leading to people having to turn around in our driveway), the creek in our woods, pumpkins floating in the distance at Tenney's farm, and water attempting to take out a bridge downtown that is in the midst of be replaced from a previous wash-out.

If you click on any of the pictures, you'll get a larger version.

Other "news" that I'm aware of is that part of the Greg Lake damn has washed away (the top maybe?) Also, two of our friends are now accessing their house from an old logging road because the bridge leading to it is no longer safe. Should be interesting in the winter :-)

But, compared to some other recent natural disasters, we can't complain. And Mikey loves the water...he might still be out there playing by it if I didn't make him come in with me :-)

Nagdabbit!

Not to long ago I saw the most beautiful red cardinal...but it flew away before I could grab my camera. It was an amazing bright color in a canvas of reserved browns and greens...

Moose sighting!

Heading home tonight with Jennifer (after visiting relatives in Newport), she and I had the honor of seeing a large moose. It wasn't far from the two I saw last year with April...on Route 31 north of the center of Washington, New Hampsire (although still in Washington, I believe).

It didn't seem at all phased by us...I stopped both for safety and to gawk. Initially I told Jenn I wished I brought my camera...but it was night, and, although it was lumbering, it disappeared too quickly into the forest for that to matter...

I need Weight Watchers

I believe this is the same squirrel as pictured in the previous post. I just figured I'd give more proof that no squirrel on Fahrner land goes hungry. :-)

Not that I couldn't use Weight Watchers too :-)

(If you click on the photo you'll see a larger version...)

Quite the pose...

My daughter, April, pointed this squirrel out to me. If you click on the image, you'll see why this really is, "Quite the pose..."

We had snow again last night, but it's now rain. That made it good for packing this morning, and Mikey and I had a small snowball fight this morning :-)

The Moon...

I'm starting to play with how to take pictures of the moon...here are a couple examples.

The first is during last night's lunar eclipse...the second an earlier combination of crisp skies, clouds, and full moon...

If you click on either picture, you'll get a larger version...