Kinda sorta looks like melting

The snow recedes and reveals shoots. Little green shoots that might be crocus or snowdrops or maybe even daffodils. Things are pretty intermingled in there. Could be all three. Or could be I’m getting my hopes up.

A teeny bit of melting

Some of the trails are trodden by squirrels. Some are the glazes of trickling rills. Except calling them rills is a wording too strong, For the trails of a melt that is oozing along. Just the feeble signs of a slightly warm day, And another false promise it will all go away.

Melt, already!

There’s only so many pictures you can take of snow of ice, especially when it looks exactly the same from day to day. Exactly the same. So…here’s what it looks like at night.

No, it’s not melting

The ice did not take kindly to predictions of its demise. It ripped the downspout off the gutter and welded it to the corner of the house. And now we’re back in the deep freeze. Thanks a lot, ice.

Ice is Melting

Could this be our February thaw? We got up to scorching 41 degrees today. While the fangs of the icicles grow longer, the downpour is finally melted open, and snow is melting off the roof and pouring into the rain barrel vainly hoping to survive the water. Meltwaters are pouring down the steps, running down […]

New shovel enters

Here’s what we’re up against: mounds and mounds and piles and banks of snow. I hope my new shovel will even out the score!

Snow 1, Shovel 0

Let that be a warning to you all.

One hawk in the bush

…is awesome!

Snow banks

The storm has blown by overnight, and here is one of the snow banks it formed. I love the shapse the snow can form, sweeping crests and overhanging waves. It amazes me how firmly those shapes stay put. And I love it even more when those snow banks form in the right places.

Paths about to vanish

With another storm coming, these paths won’t be clear for much longer. And it never got warm enough to melt any of the last snowfall. So, so looking forward to figuring out where to put the next batch.