Eleven years ago, spring did come early and the white petals of the Bloodroot blossoms carpeted the woods in late March, but with the current depth of snow and the tall snow piles, I will be lucky that I am not mowing around snow piles in May let alone seeing March flowers this year.
Bloodroot White Blossom
The heavy snow overnight had my pine trees branches weighted down again and I not sure they will ever return to their former upright positions even after the snow melts off as many times they been snowed on.
Weighted Down Again
Snowflakes began to fall this evening creating a new white coat. Giving this picket fence a new white coat of paint might mean some work, but it would be warmer than than shoveling to remove the new snow coating in the morning.
Flowers by Picket Fence
There was some fog overnight leaving a hint of morning frost here and there.
Hint of Frost
With the recent fluffier snow, it looks like the squirrel sank down into the snow with every hop and made an interesting track pattern in the snow.
More Snow Tracks
Today was “critters on the road” day. Four tom turkeys were taking their sweet time crossing the road when I was heading for lunch. And when I was leaving work this evening, a deer was in the middle of the road and it didn’t want to leave the road, probably since it didn’t want to climb the ditch snow banks and stand in that cold white stuff.
Ditch Deer
“March comes in like a Lion and goes out like a Lamb” is one weather proverb, although while there was snow today, at least it wasn’t a major storm so maybe March came in like an angry house cat and not a lion. But hopefully it definitely will go out like a lamb.
In Like a Cat
The tree limbs were still coated with ice this morning, but by afternoon when the sun was out, some of the ice started to fall off and I got hit by falling ice when I was filling the bird feeders.
Still Icy Branches
The freezing rain today created some rather slippery surfaces and coated a lot of thing outside like these red colored branches.
Ice Coated Branches
The forecast has freezing rain tonight and tomorrow morning but I definitely don’t want to see anymore ice here. I rather have to visit the ice caves on the shore of Lake Superior to see icy tunnels and ice formations and not the slick ice on my driveway.
Icy Tunnel
