It looks like the trees are weary of this week snow fall too and are waiting for the sun to come out and melt some of this white decoration.

Weary Branches

The week before Thanksgiving looks more like the week before Christmas instead with snow falling each day.

Still Snowing

Last Christmas had a wintery look, but this year with the recent rains that melted much of the snow and exposed some grassy spots so it was more of a brown Christmas instead of a white one.

Last Year

The sunshine today helped melt some of the snow off the tree branches, but the snow was still  deep to walk through it.

Winter Tree Decorations

The morning started out extra white again but not from frost this time, but heavy wet snow that caused many tree limbs bend towards the ground but at least the wind and temperature just above freezing helped to remove the snow from the trees.

Heavy Winter Snow

It isn’t just my imagination that it seemed rather cloudy this month in my area as the records kept at the U of M St. Paul Campus Climate Observatory documented the least amount of solar radiation for a January since the records began 1963.

Gloomy January

The sunlight this morning highlighted the sparkles from the fluffy flakes from the last snowfall. But my squirrels have been messing up the shiny snowflakes as they stomp down trails from the trees to my bird feeders.

Sparkling Snow

A couple of light snowfalls in the last two days have coated the trees again with a white dusting of snow and it sounds like they will get additional layers of that white stuff in the coming days.

Trees Dusted Again