The old saying “April showers bring May flowers” doesn’t quite work for the showers in March. The March rain does bring more water as the rain melts more of the snow pack. Eventually the spring flowers will return but no hint of them in my woods yet.
No Wildflowers Yet
The morning was whiter than I wanted to see with a fresh coating of snow and hoarfrost too. The sun peaked out in the afternoon to help re-melt the new snow layer.
White Frost
On Sunday when the weather was warmer, I cleaned my wood duck boxes and put fresh shavings in them. The melting snow filled my pond (and my boots too when I stepped in deep snow with water running beneath the snow). Now tonight there is a fresh coating snow covering the ground and the ice layer on the pond. At least the amount of snow should be light if the forecast is correct.
Frozen Pond
Today’s full moon is also a super moon and so it is called Super Worm Moon. The worm part coming from a time when the ground is beginning to soften enough for earthworms to reappear and enticing robins to return. It is also called Sap Moon, so it could be Super Sap Moon instead as the sugar maple sap is beginning to flow. The warm temperatures yesterday didn’t bring any robins back yet, but the killdeer, red-winged blackbirds and a pair of geese did show up. My pond isn’t big enough to support the trumpeter swans but they sure would look prettier than the geese I get.
Returning Swans
My pond filled up from the melting snow pack today as the temperature reached 53 degrees and the melting snow off my roof did look like a waterfall, or at least like the left side of this waterfall.
Tranquil Waterfall
The “snow creatures” are popping up in the road ditches again this March. The warmer temperatures have been melting snow but there are spots where either dirt, hunks of sod or pine needles prevent the snow from melting as fast as the surrounding area leaving raised interesting bumps along side the road.
Snow Piney Creature
The temperature barely made it above freezing but the sunshine made it feel warmer and snow was melting. My packed snow path to my bird feeder is slippery with the melting snow but at least I didn’t have to shovel a path in the deep snow like some years.
Shoveled Snow Path
There was no happy birds singing this morning as the fluffy snowflakes fell. At least the amount of snow wasn’t a lot as it changed from big flakes, to drizzle before switching to ice pellets and then finally to small snowflakes again. So while it was a gray day, it wasn’t a heavy snow, like some past winter days in which even the trees seemed weary of winter.
Weary of Winter
With temperatures above freezing and the sun out, I wasn’t the only one enjoying the day as there was a cardinal singing loudly in a tree this morning. I’m not sure if all the singing was for the weather or if there was love in the air.
Happy Cardinal
This waterfall has more water flowing than what was dripping from my roof, but at least there was some snow melting even though the temperature wasn’t much above freezing during the day but eventually the streams and waterfalls will be flowing again.
Jacob’s Fall in October
