St. Patty’s Day must have sucked all the green up yesterday and didn’t leave any left for today as it was a white morning with the new snowfall overnight. And the robins have been snowed more than the three times needed for spring to come so nature needs a counting lesson as I want green and not white.
March 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
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
With the new snow over night, the trees look ‘pretty’ but it is not so pretty to shovel!
Trees in White Decorations
Apparently more people were wishing for a white Christmas than a green Christmas as the snow on Wednesday didn’t melt in time. We get some years with brown Christmas but the majority are white, but with the warm winter the grass has been growing and I wanted to mow lawn on Christmas as that would have been the first for here but missed it by less than two days.
Dreaming of a Green Christmas
Today marks the winter solstice, the first day of winter, and the day with the shortest sunlight of the year. Of course with the cloudy skies, the sun wasn’t visible anyway, but it also didn’t look like winter with the lack of snow at the moment.
Winter Solstice
A brief moment of sun through the storm clouds allowed a rainbow to form in the sky but it didn’t last long so I didn’t get to the pond in time to catch the reflection in the water. I might have reached my destination if I didn’t have to stop so many times to wipe the raindrops off the camera lens but at least the camera stayed drier than I did as the storm continued to rumble and released another downpour.
Brief Rainbow
There wasn’t a colorful Sunday sunrise this morning since it was cloudy and the trees were rattling with ice from the freezing rain overnight. The yard was full of robins this morning but I don’t think ice counts as snow on the robin’s tail so spring might not be here yet.
Sunday Sunrise
When I woke this morning, it was -13ºF outside so even though it is sunny out, I don’t think I will be wearing shorts and swaying in the breeze in the hammock on a Sunday afternoon.
Waiting for Sunny Summer Day
A sunny winter morning can look pretty after a new snowfall or frost formation, but normally by the time it warms up enough to venture outside, the wind has blown the snow off the trees and this morning it looks like it is snowing again with snow coming off the tree limbs.
Winter Morning
