This has been some winter. As the sun rose this morning, I glanced out into the woods and noticed for the first time in months, there is no snow on the ground. It has been surviving in the darker spots where the density of evergreens keep the wooded floor in the shade.
That may sound rather minor, especially to our friends in Canada, but when we moved here a decade or two ago, the nearest kin said, and I quote exactly, "It hardly snows here. When it does, it doesn't stick." Of course, the winter following that statement produced one of the nastiest blizzards in history. True to form, I must say, when the results of the blizzard passed, the rest of the winter was mild.
This winter was different. There were no major blizzards. A nasty storm or two, but nothing that really shut us down. It was the number of storms, followed by bitter-bitter cold that helped preserve the snow on the ground.
This doesn't mean it won't snow again before Spring takes hold. We had an April Fools Day blizzard not that many years ago. The winds from that took down the entire eastern fence. I am not tempting nature. Just commenting on the snapshot my eyes took with the rising sun.
Happy March!!
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