After a delightfully warm December and January (for the most part), and after the lying groundhog didn’t see his shadow, it began to snow.
Late last night, the first sleet mixed with rain began to fall and by this morning, it was entirely snow. Wet, heavy snow. The kind of snow that sticks to everything, especially tree branches and power lines.
The trees in the front and rear of the house are bowed with the weight of snow on their limbs. The weather services keep upping the amount predicted, though it doesn’t seem to be snowing heavily enough to accumulate a foot. I guess we shall see.
I’m hoping for a little breeze to move the branches and shake some of the snow from the trees. Snow makes pretty pictures, but it’s a real pain in the butt in every other way.
Meanwhile, complaints aside, it is beautiful outside. It is a classic winter wonderland, worthy of Currier and Ives … or Robert Frost.
I guess we’re going to have winter after all. I was perfectly content without snow. Really. I was.
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Here too! We got about 10 inches…it is lovely! 🙂
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This is the kind of little storm I can handle. It’s those 3 footers that make me crazy. We can actually still get out of the house and up the driveway! Imagine that in the middle of February 🙂
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Pure beauty. Thank you.
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It was quite the ice palace this morning. Everything was glittering in that bright morning-after-the-storm sunshine.
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Beautiful photos, even if the cause is not very pleasant We had the most wonderful spring weather yesterday and made the most of it and went for a walk until I had my accident (see blog). All the same I can write on my computer taking it easy in a comfortable chair. Be careful of falling on the snow.
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Spring weather is supposed to be back tomorrow. A brief appearance, than some more winter weather and snow … but we’re in the home stretch, so regardless, it won’t be too long before we see the first flowers poking up.
I’m very careful in this weather. I’ve done a lot of falling … and it hurts. It’s a crunch, not a splat. We don’t bounce at our age!
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Currier, Ives and Frost be damned. We deal in ice bullets!!
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It is lovely from INDOORS. But I still have the mental scars from all those years doing live TV OUTSIDE in this stuff and almost freezing the family jewels.
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I remember defrosting you when you finally came home. You were COLD.
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Absolutely beautiful!
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Even more glorious now, with the sun shining on it. Still no wind, but the sun is at least melting some of it.
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It’s supposed to arrive here Monday. Yuck
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Yuck, yes, But it’s late, so at least we’re no more than a month away from early spring. Stay positive, my friends. Just four more weeks.
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Early Spring is predicted for us. On the other hand, snow is coming Monday and Tuesday.
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Stay warm kids!
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Thanks! We got heat. The plow finally showed up. I’m dreaming of a meltdown 🙂
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It was indeed a winter wonderland today. The snow was lighter and we had less out here in the North Central area, but I still felt like I was in a snow globe all day! And the sunset was just spectacular.
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We didn’t get as much as they said we would — probably about 6-1/2 inches, but it’s heavy, wet snow and there’s not a breath of wind. Branches are breaking off everywhere. So far, at least we still have power. It is beautiful, though. Very snow globe indeed.
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Yeah .. when there’s no wind, that can cause a lot of damage. We had that situation here last year – destroyed thousands of trees, power lines …
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The plow finally got here and cleaned the driveway, but there’s still no wind. The poor trees are all bowed over.
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This was quite an eye opening day. The snow was beautiful.
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It’s beautiful until you can’t remember what the world looked like before the snow. Then it’s just … more snow.
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yep yep, we got about 8 inches, on top of a dirt driveway that hadnt frozen. Plowing is, to put it mildly, a bitch.
I’d say we got off lightly, at this point…
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So far, so good. But it’s early in February. I’ll feel better if we make it a live to March. Our driveway has crumbled and is basically dirt too. But they want tens of thousands of dollars to pave it. We could buy a nice place in Phoenix for that kind of money, so we’ll just have to make do.
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Is this the latest that the snow has come for a couple of winters? It is pretty but I think I’d be a bit anxious about falling branches.
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It’s a bout a week later than last year … but February made up for it all by being the most snow in the shortest amount of time in recorded weather history. I’d like to NOT beat that record!
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we had snow last year and the year before well before thanksgiving, in fact two years ago we spent T’day shoveling snow off the porch roof. yay us. So this is very late after almost no snow at all all winter. Lord only knows what we’ll get in April.
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Wow! You got a lot of snow!
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Maybe 7 inches. Compared to last year when we started with 32 inches, I’d say we got off lightly.
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Still much more than we had in Northern Germany… our snow was a complete joke this year, to the chagrin of photographers or kids who wanted to play in the snow 🙂 But, I know as much people who liked the little slow, like people with cars 😀
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I was hoping we’d make it all the way without any. This wasn’t so bad, as storms go. Very wet, heavy stuff. I’m counting on a warm up and a lot of melting.
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It won’t last Marilyn.
Leslie
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I hope not. But at least it was less than a foot. I can handle that.
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Just before I left the office for lunch today, big beautiful snowflakes started falling – just like a snow globe. Wouldn’t you know it – my camera was at home, and by the time I got home, the snow had stopped.
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I had plenty of time since it snowed all day, from dawn until about 4 in the afternoon. Remarkably little accumulation for all those hours, though. I’m grateful for that.
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Wonderful photos! We got hit my way as well. It’s pretty for now.
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I think all New England got a bit. But not too bad. So far, it’s been an okay winter. May it please continue.
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