Rocks

Along a path in the neighborhood.

Flowering

Orange Cones

Spring Break for the local schools .  Here orange cones left on the playground of the neighborhood elementary school 

Found Art

More sidewalk art.

Local Art

 Children's sidewalk chalk artwork, kites and rainbows

Ostara

Vernal Equinox

Spring Garden

Somebody is getting an early start to their vegetable garden.

Group Picnic

A new picnic shelter in the park.

Marianne Williams Park

Promenade on the water front.  

Unsafe Ice

There are still a few signs of winter.

Spring Runoff

Cottonwood Creek with runoff from rain and warmer temperatures.

River and Snow

This is from a few years back.  The Boise River with snow along the greenbelt.

Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail in east Boise where the trail came off the desert into the valley.

Frosty

Freezing fog added a layer of frost to sagebrush and left the ground frost free.

Grimes Creek

Just off highway 21 at the Grimes Creek turnoff some 48km (30miles) from Boise. 

Idaho City #2

St. Joseph's Catholic Church - 1863 - Idaho's first Cathedral.   Sunny day in Idaho City.

Idaho City

Went to Idaho City to get out of the fog and low clouds of the inversion.  Warmer and lots of sun.

Squirrel

Ground squirrel cutout at the elementary school.   Part of a educational garden project about native plants and animals.

Donate

Idaho Youth Ranch donation box

Power Lines

Power lines down an alley with Tablerock in the background

Sunny

Most of the valley has been fogged in for a few days and may be for a few more, Meridian, Nampa, and points west.  But in Boise at least my neighborhood it has been sunny and a little bit warmer.

Duck Duck

From the photo archives.  

Ice

From the fountain at MK Plaza.

Heron

Great Blue Heron fishing in a small ice free spot.

Cattails

Bike Rack

Hunting

Camouflage boat that I am guessing it is used as a duck blind.

Ivy on Bark

School

Few more days and school will be out of the holidays.

Grey Day

We been having an inversion which is normal for Boise.  Frosty cold days and nights in town while up in the hills it is 20˚ warmer and sunny.

Cold

It is only December and I am already tired of being cold.

Red berries and snow

Anyone Home?

Armory

The old armory built in the 1930 as a WPA project is now being reworked after sitting vacant for many years.  I do not know what it will house but it good to see that it was not torn down.  It already looks better.

White Berries

Do not know the name of this, heard snowberry but do not know.  It grows on a small to medium size bush.

Pipes

Pipes for something at Dad's retirement apartment complex.

Rainwater Runoff

Catch basin for runoff

Bike Tunnel

The 9th Street tunnel along the greenbelt/bike path.

View...

From Dad's apartment.  Looking east toward the Boise foothills.

Poinsettia

It seems earlier every year the rush for the holidays and the holiday dollar.  Found a large display of poinsettias at Albertsons on Fivemile

Market

Last of the small neighborhood markets:  The Roosevelt Market.  Boise.

Table and Chairs

Still used on warm days.  Lunch or perhaps a coffee break at the Roosevelt Market.

Bag of Leaves

In the older neighborhoods of Boise where the trees are large and numerous it is a big deal come autumn with raking of the leaves.    Here I have 35 bags of leaves waiting for city to pick-up for composting.  Next week I could have another batch. 

Fruit

Mini crabapples

Gate

The thingy on the top of a garden gate

Vote Here

The first Tuesday after the first Monday in November is election day.  City council and a couple of bonds this time. 

First Snow

The first snow of the season.  Just a light dusting of snow and none sticking to the roads. 

Theme Day: Heights

November theme: Heights

Time to clean out the rain gutters, again.

Street Sweeper

Cosmos

Still a few flowers the frost hasn't gotten yet

Rust

I do not know what it was but the rust is cool.