The sunset will be later this evening due to the daylight saving time change, although the rain probably will prevent seeing one this evening, but the time change is another reminder that spring is coming and that makes it easier to take picture outside without fingers and camera freezing up!
Later Sunset
Although the wind chill this morning is below freezing, yesterday was abnormally warm so I ventured outside in the afternoon. After watching the bald eagle circling overhead and watching the three geese resting on the edge of my pond, I set out to clean the birdhouses. And while I didn’t have to stand in any snow to clean the houses, I did have to skirt around some snow drifts and you would feel the air temperature change when next to the drifts.
Normally I have to evict some rodents from the houses and at times it is hard to get them to leave, so this time I took my camera to take pictures of the field mice and didn’t find any little four-legged critters in the houses. So halfway on my trek of cleaning the houses, I left my camera behind so of course I did eventually found a pair of ‘cute’ looking mice in one house but probably good I didn’t have my camera then as the deer had rutted up the path so much that in one spot I sank and splashed mud all over me and my clothes.
So after throwing my clothes in the wash and taking a shower, I ate some ice cream on the porch barefoot without a coat or sweatshirt on – something that doesn’t have very often in early March!
Time for Spring Cleaning
Most of the recent snow probably will melt with warmer temperatures and predicted rain so maybe the ground will be visible again, although it will be brown instead of green until the grass starts growing again.
Church Amongst the Snow
The robins got their tails snowed on again yesterday, so after one more time, spring can finally come. The clouds didn’t know that meteorological spring started on Tuesday so it didn’t need to drop more flakes so apparently it is following astronomical spring instead.
Springtime Snow
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
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 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
The wind blew in the rain yesterday as well as a couple of robins, so maybe the groundhog was right about the early spring. But since the only grass peeking out is the narrow strip along the edge of the driveway next to the tall snow banks, the robin kept looking at me like it was my fault there wasn’t more grass to hop on and he did slide on the ice once too so not a happy bird.
Early Robin
This morning the sun was sparkling off the new snow crystals on a chilly morning. Last week the trees were covered with frost until the winds picked up which created a snow shower on a clear day.
Frosty Morning
The ice crystal monster dropped a lot of snow on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning and it was a hassle to clear the roads, driveways and sidewalks. And the snow monster dropping snow flakes again!
Ice Crystal Monster
