I'm so sick of winter... I was hoping to see some pretty brightly-colored flowers today. LOL! Another snowstorm here yesterday and cold and windy! Our low last night was -11F :(

A typical downtown street (where the only allowed vehicles would be police cars)... in Praia da Vitoria, Terceira Island, Azores:

Here ya' go party_music...Pretty, brightly colored flowers.

Here's my pretty flower.

My daylily garden from a couple of years ago.

Roses from my rental house last summer...

A few years back I accompanied my wife to a conference she was attending on the island of Madeira. The day after we flew out, a huge storm hit the Northeast where much of her family lives. They were emailing each other pictures of the snow in their yards and on their decks, so my wife responded by sending a picture of the pool deck area of the hotel we were staying in.

Followed by a couple of other images of the main city, Funchal.

Some pictures from a botanical gardens we visited:

And a few pictures for other trips around the island.

and from a trip to a neighboring island.

Warm thoughts to Casey_nfld and Party_music

Sunset leaving Labadee, Haiti, three weeks ago

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This picture shows nothing remotely what you all are talking about, but it's some of my haul today.

We just got back from a Mennonite farmer and brought a fresh chicken (7 lb beauty), 7 lb of lard!, a huge cabbage, 10 lb of Yukon Gold potatoes, 5 lb of carrots.

I was on a quest for pig fat ever since Cheryl posted about making lard. I called a local farmer and he could sell me the fat, or the lard itself, which the Mennonite ladies buy for their pastry. Hmmmph, no brainer, I bought the lard!

The veggies are in bins which he just picked out for us. I wish I needed onions, but I don't, there were 10 lb bags of the most beautiful, large onions. I hate buying bags of onions and they're small. Tons of garlic, too.

I just bought what I had room for in the frig, the lard I'll be putting in margarine/sour cream containers for the freezer.