A view from across the field...

Just as winter storm Plato makes its may up the northeast coast, we gathered a mere inch of snow overnight, much of which had melted by mid afternoon; but Judy and I had a lovely walk in the field behind our new house at Mapleridge, with the ground still hard and frozen.

We looked back across the unploughed field to catch a great view of our house in its setting, and could see the siding specialists finishing for the day.

We watched a Cooper's hawk drift slowly over towards Virgil as the sun set slowly in the west. 

This picture doesn't show the creek that runs down, right to left just behind our house, and it also doesn't show the woodchuck hole that I fell into, shortly after taking this photograph!
Almost  as if I'd gone down with Alice....

Nicholas

And...then...he popped back up with the March Hare and the Mad Hatter, what an afternoon it was! 

It is a holiday here, President's Day, but still our workmen were on site...they amaze us. Today the same team that got our shingles on before the big Christmas Eve storm were on hand to get the siding in place...

They couldn't get going until the temperatures rose above freezing, but then they worked until the sunset this afternoon. 

This is the view from what will be part of the garden where we hope to have a fire pit. The siding will look this shade of grey in full sunshine, and here is what happens in the shade...

Tomorrow is a big day, the excavator returns to dig the trenches for the plumbing to be connected and the gas lines to be hooked up. The siding will continue to be put up and we just had news that our tiles have arrived...so, bathrooms and flooring coming soon!

Judy