If the seagulls where standing around my pond this morning, their feet would be frozen in ice and any sandy beach area would be snow covered. Eventually spring will come and the birds can run up and down the beach ahead of the waves.
Seagulls with Wet Feet
With below freezing temperatures, the snow isn’t melting and dripping off the roof yet this morning. A better view of dripping and falling water is from a warmer day like at the hidden, out of the way waterfall of Lost Creek Falls. And when the lost became ‘founded’, it was a very relaxing place to behold.
Relaxing Near Lost Creek Falls
April showers bring May flowers but February showers just bring snow which may or may not eventually melt in March. But definitely no flowers to be seen and no toadstool poking up either. The only white bumps on the ground is snow covered rocks instead.
Family of Toadstools
Today is a day to catch up our current Gregorian calendar to the actual solar year with a extra day in this leap year. Unless the earth is shoved into a different orbit, a complete orbit of the earth around the sun takes exactly 365.2422 days to complete, so the Gregorian calendar using 365 days gets out of whack without adding an extra day every four years. But every four years is too much so the extra rule of any centennial year that is divisible by 400 does have a leap day. But even all the extra tweaking, the leap year rules still adds an extra half minute a year so in 3,000 years or so, people decide what to do.
This old building has seen plenty of leap years and time has not leaped over it but instead the building has endured the harsh weather of the years and it may not see a great number of leap years in its future.
Time Leaping Ahead
There was sun dogs in the sky last evening but by the time I got my camera, the mini rainbows of the sun dogs had faded away as the thicker clouds moved in. And those thicker clouds this morning are dropping huge snowflakes again but at least there was a pretty sunset last evening.
Sunset Before the Snow
Some water was running from the melting snow today as the temperatures reached fifty degrees but not warm enough for me to fishing from shore, especially when the lakes and most rivers are still frozen.
Fishing on a Warm Day
During the night, I had a black & white visitor but it was a rather smelly one! This is the second visit in a week’s time, so I rather the skunk went to some other house to visit for a while as I rather cuddle a black and white kitty who doesn’t smell so bad.
Not Pepé Le Pew
The flowing water looks like smooth ice, and I rather see the flowing water than the slippery ice on my driveway as my vehicle slid on the slick surface the last few days.
The Upper Step of Two Step Falls
It may not be snowing today and the temperature is nearing the freezing mark, but spring and blooming flowers are still a couple months away. So no bright orange dotting the yard and the only color seen in the yard are the birds at the feeders.
Colorful Lily
The snowflakes falling this morning were huge and too bad they weren’t cotton candy instead of cold snow. A flake would cover my camera lens so I had to try to protect the camera while out in the snow squall. The little patch grass the robin was hanging around is now covered but at least it snowed on the robin’s tail so only twice more until spring comes.
Huge Snowflakes
