Time To Say Goodbye

This is the last post to A New Hampshire Journal. March 4 we packed the RV and followed our movers south towards a new home on eastern Long Island, NY – not so much “new” to us, as we spent 17 years there before retiring in 2012 and moving north, first to ME and then to the NH Lakes region. It has been great, but we are ready for something easier – a retirement community on Long Island. So with thanks and great memories of our NH “lakeside home,” we bid you farewell! Maybe there will be a new “Island blog” in the future. But here it’s almost Spring already, and leaving the NH snows was not too hard!

January Thaw

Meteorologists deny their existence, but we love these soft mild days…

 

Winter Sunset

Winter Sunrise

The sun kisses the tips of distant pines

Good Night Moon

A misty dawn and late moon-set

 

Winter Now

It’s winter now

First Snow

The first snow, before Thanksgiving, wet enough to stick, is the best one

Freezing Rain

 

Far away across the lake, a pair of Bald Eagles atop their pines

 

 

 

Mergansers

Ice is out of our lake in mid-March, and the mergansers – common and red-breasted – are here in force, finding many small fish to feed on along the melting ice edge

 

Early Spring?

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Open water on the lake 6 weeks early… and the geese are back