A Winter Walk Around Our House
This is a clockwise tour taken mostly through windows from the inside
of our house.
I did NOT "smallenize" them, so use your browser's "zoom-out" feature
(CTRL-hyphen keys?) to make them fit your screen.
Looking out the front/north door; Nigerian wood carvings on the right:
This shows some of our screened-in porch -- which isn't particularly
useful during the winter!-(
Looking east through the living-room picture window; the CD's are a
failed attempt to keep birds from commiting suicide by hitting
the glass
Looking through the east door from closer to the glass.
I need to clear the sidewalk!
North bird feeder hanging over the driveway from a walnut tree:
South bird feeder hanging over the driveway from a very-knarled
Chinaberry tree:
Gleaners under the south bird feeder:
The new picture window in our dining room; Nancy and breakfast are
awaiting me:
Heated bird-waterer (this also-new window has screens, so looking through
it is fuzzier):
Third bird feeder hanging under our 4-foot eaves.
There is a heated critter-waterer on the ground that you'll see later:
Looking out the back/south door; I'm sure glad I don't have to "do chores"
any more!
Looking west through the "garden window". A later from-the-outside
picture shows how this window extends outside the house wall.
Don't those Jalapeno peppers, which ripened after they were brought in,
look delicious?
I was surprised that the geranium petals flourished with the outside
night-time temperatures getting 'way below freezing, but the
"garden window" IS double-insulated!
Looking out the west door; the path through the windbreak leads to the
blackberry/raspberry patch and hoophouse:
Our clothes line is rolled up for the winter (it took some work; a
dirt(mud?)-dauber had built a BIG glob inside the clothesline
container which inhibited rolling, and I had to take it apart!)
When Nancy hangs out clothes, she just sets the clothes basket on the
ground, but I like to have it about waist high, so I leave a tomato-stake
below the line; the red-rim is to make it more visible.
Since the ground is not totally snow-covered, you can tell that this
and following pictures were taken a few days after the previous ones.
Garden window from the outside, and the left-most two windows are
also new.
Gasp! Look at that icicle! This is
something you definitely do not want to see in Florida!
North-east side of house; sometimes, snow on roofs can show heat-loss
patterns, but I don't think this does.
The window directly beneath the "star" is also new.
South-east side of house; the green bowl on the ground in the lower
left is the heated critter-water bowl.
South end of house and end of this tour.
This page was created on 5 January, 2013.