The first full day of spring still looks too much like winter to me, but with some days above freezing maybe the snow will start shrinking.
First Full Day of Spring
Picture of the Day for March 20, 2023
Once in a while, there is a flower blooming by the first day of spring like in 2012, but not this year with deep snow still covering the ground.
No Flower for Start of Spring
Picture of the Day for March 19, 2023
The calendar may say spring starts tomorrow but the snow covered landscape this Sunday doesn’t show any hint of spring yet. With an enclosed bell tower and a small onion dome, St. Mary Orthodox Church was established in 1909 in a small village of Cornucopia on the south shore of Lake Superior.
Still White Sunday
Picture of the Day for March 18, 2023
Earlier this week, I had been raking snow off my roof before the predicted rain and snow came again, as I wasn’t sure the roof could handle anymore weight. And after it had been raining for a while, I heard noises on one end of my house and I maybe a rafter did break. But then I started to hear other noises too. What I discovered was four tom turkeys trying to break into my basement door as apparently they wanted out of the freezing rain. They been hanging around the last few days but I’m still not letting them inside my house.
Attempted Break-in Turkey
Picture of the Day for March 17, 2023
The decorated cookies and cupcakes was about the only green around here for St. Patrick’s Day as it still looks like Christmas with all the remaining snow. It sure would be nice to see a green covered rock and not a white covered rock.
Hidden Green Hideaway
Picture of the Day for March 16, 2023
Yesterday I saw some trumpeter swans flying overhead, and maybe with the melting, there might have been some puddles of water but not enough for them to land and swim around in yet so I don’t know where they were headed to.
Trumpeter Swans Return
Picture of the Day for March 15, 2023
This morning there was some faint sundogs around the sun created by the ice crystals in the air. Course the calves didn’t seem to care about the sky but only that I was delayed putting their feed out by taking the picture.
Faint Sundogs
Picture of the Day for March 14, 2023
I was driving on a back road today when I spotted a row of round hay bales that were wrapped in white plastic lined up in a row in a field, and they looked similar to old breakwater posts covered in ice and snow I saw in a Lake Superior harbor.
Ice Coated Posts
Picture of the Day for March 13, 2023
Yesterday when I was raking snow off my roof, I heard and saw a sandhill crane headed north. It should have been headed back south as there is no bare ground at my place and my pond is still frozen. The crane might have been reading a calendar since seven years ago, they came back to this scene where there was no snow remaining. Otherwise, the female crane might have sent the male (as they mate for life) ahead to find the perfect nesting spot before the spring rush, but locating a good spot under two feet of snow might be tough.
Crane Back Early
Picture of the Day for March 12, 2023
Another day was spent shoveling snow and raking snow off my roof after Mother Nature decided to redecorate with white again.
Coated White Again
