Snow fell again today as winter is making itself felt as the daylight continue to get shorter. Some of my ash seed pods are still hanging on and they haven’t quite given up its hold on autumn.
Seed Pods in White
Picture of the Day for December 2, 2019
As the winter storm moved off to the east, the sky sparkled as the sunshine revealed the ice coated tree limbs.
Sparkling Limbs
Picture of the Day for December 1, 2019
Today is the start of meteorological winter, which is the three coldest months of the year. And with the additional snow today, it definitely looks like a white winter.
Start of Winter
Picture of the Day for November 30, 2019
The weather today kept changing from snow, to freezing rain, to snow pellets, to ice pellets, to sleet and back to snow again. I don’t like the icy stuff, especially in my yard and I rather only see it when it creates the ice formations along Lake Superior.
Ice Up High
Picture of the Day for November 27, 2019
The snow dumped by the storm made today look more like the day before Christmas than the day before Thanksgiving. And it doesn’t sound like any of it will be melting before the next winter storm comes.
White Thanksgiving
Picture of the Day for May 9, 2019
My lawn is soggy again but lucky it was only rain and not snow like the ten inches which fell farther to the north. Although six years ago, there was eighteen inches of snow in my yard after a snow storm in May.
May Snow Storm
Picture of the Day for April 16, 2019
The sunny and warm day helped to melt most of the recent snow and the water surrounded the old willow tree again but not quite as bad as the first main snow melt.
Old Willow Tree
Picture of the Day for April 14, 2019
The freezing temperatures overnight caused an ice layer to almost cover all of my pond. There was a small patch of open water in which I spotted a pair of Wood Ducks and Hooded Mergansers floating close together. They probably needed the bigger body mallards to break up the ice, but at least by noon, they had this bigger patch of water. At least the ice wasn’t as thick or damaging as the iceberg that the Titanic hit 107 years ago on April 14 and sank less than 3 hours later.
Freezing Over Again
Picture of the Day for April 11, 2019
I don’t know where spring went since I had to walk through ten inches of snow to get to the bird feeder today. And the blowing snow, sleet, freezing rain, thunder and roaring winds did not look or feel like spring at all.
Where Did Spring Go?
Picture of the Day for March 21, 2019
The scene out my front door doesn’t really look like the first full day of spring as it appears more like winter to me.
First Full Day of Spring
I posted this image a few years ago and it seems appropriate again for this year too.
