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
Picture of the Day for March 2, 2023
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
Picture of the Day for February 28, 2023
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
Picture of the Day for February 27, 2023
The freezing rain today created some rather slippery surfaces and coated a lot of thing outside like these red colored branches.
Ice Coated Branches
Picture of the Day for February 19, 2023
The sun peeked out for a while this afternoon and with temperatures just above freezing, some people may have ventured out to check out the winter scenes, like frozen waterfalls and snow covered sandstone gorges, but I was tired of slipping on the ice so I didn’t spend any extra time outside.
Wintertime at Houghton Falls
Picture of the Day for February 16, 2023
The unexpected rain in February polished the snow and ice to very slippery conditions, as even one of the farm cats was doing the dance jig as she slid down the hill about fifteen feet, but with four legs she manage to stay upright – barely. You expect to find ice on frozen lakes, but not on the driveway and walkways and it probably won’t melt before the snow next week hides it making even trickier to walk outside.
Walking on Superior Ice
Picture of the Day for February 15, 2023
The rain yesterday melted some snow and water was running in ditches and eventually flowed into creeks and rivers, but the below freezing temperature today is putting an ice layer back on the water.
Winter Water Flowing
Picture of the Day for February 14, 2023
The day was filled with red colors for Valentine’s Day as even Mother Nature provided a reddish sunrise. There is a saying “Red sky in morning, sailors take warning”, which can come true in the middle latitudes and when the storms generally move west to east. With sunlight reflecting off particles in the air, the red sky can indicate a high water content in the atmosphere so that rain cold be on its way. And it came true today as it started to rain a few hours after sunrise, which isn’t common in February, but maybe a good thing it was rain today otherwise it may have been a foot of snow instead.
Valentine’s Red Sky
Picture of the Day for February 13, 2023
I spent some time this afternoon scooping water away from the office door which was trapped by the snow banks and couldn’t drain away. But if I didn’t throw it far enough, the water would drain right back into my mini lake and it felt like a losing battle at times, like trying to empty the water out of the opening in the ice at Siskiwit Falls.
Siskiwit Falls in Wintertime
Picture of the Day for February 12, 2023
There was water pooling in areas from some snow melting today but with build up snow, the water couldn’t drain away from my driveway cement and will create a frozen patch of ice by morning. Water was running across the sheet of ice by the Lake Superior ice caves where water was seeping from the rock layers that created the icy waterfalls. Ice grippers on your shoes were helpful in crossing the smooth slick ice after the water refroze.
Pooling Icy Water
