By afternoon, most of the new snow fell off the trees but some traces of the white decoration remained. The new snow sparkled in the sunshine and looked pretty except for all the snow on my driveway.
Snow Coated Pine Branches
Picture of the Day for January 22, 2021
I have had trouble with critters getting into places where they shouldn’t be and I noticed squirrel tracks going under my shed. And for a moment, I thought the squirrels had tunneled inside my shed and were roasting chestnuts on an open fire. But there wasn’t a fire in my building as it was just the glare of the setting sun reflecting off the window.
Fire Window
Picture of the Day for January 21, 2021
New snowfall is often a draw to kids to make snow angels and apparently for critters too, as a bird made this one in the new coating of snow yesterday.
Bird Snow Angel
Picture of the Day for January 19, 2021
There have been interesting tracks in the new coating of snow over the last several days. Especially when i spotted both squirrel and birds tracks that slipped on the hidden ice under the snow. And I don’t mind the squirrel tracks going between the trees, but I don’t like the tracks heading to my bird feeders.
Squirrel Snow Tracks
Picture of the Day for January 15, 2021
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
Picture of the Day for January 11, 2021
The trees were fairly free of frost this morning without the foggy start of the day. The sun was out for part of the day but there wasn’t much rime ice left to shine on, not like earlier in the month when the white formations popped against the blue sky.
Winter White and Blue
Picture of the Day for January 10, 2021
Another foggy night provided more rime ice this Sunday creating another white and gray landscape, especially without any sunshine again.
White Sunday Again
Picture of the Day for January 9, 2021
The freezing fog again overnight led to another frosty morning, but meteorologists would actually call it rime ice and not hoar frost. Rime ice forms when the object, like trees limbs, and the air are both below freezing and liquid drops, like fog, are present. And the week of freezing fog has created a lot of white winter days.
Another Rime Icy Day
Picture of the Day for January 8, 2021
The little nature fairies have been busy decorating objects again with its own type of flocking, which lasted all day without the sun out to melt the frost away.
Decorative Flocking
Picture of the Day for January 7, 2021
The gray morning revealed another frosty day but the white coating doesn’t look as pretty as when the sun is shining like it did last Sunday.
Pretty Frosty Day
