Tag: Snow

And Again

As pretty as the last snowfall was, it didn’t last longer than a day. The temps stayed cold, but the snow was gone. Now we are getting another round. It’s kinda crazy. It is really unusual for us to get anything measurable before Thanksgiving, but we got our first one before Halloween (that one might have broken a record) and we’ve already had a second since then and it looks like we might be working on a third today. It’s going to be one hell of a winter.

Fall?

I think we skipped it. We have already had a measurable snow. Not a ton, but measurable. We are also stupidly cold for being in the middle of October, including already having freeze warnings. But hey! I get to really test out the new furnace. I just hope it doesn’t completely kill off my mums that are JUST starting to bloom.

Not Yet, But Soon

I am just starting to see the tops of these beginning to poke through. It won’t be long now before those and more are up and adding color to the drab landscape. I am in desperate need for some color to help yank me out of the funk I’ve been in the last several weeks. I am finally ready to see the end of winter even though it feels wrong to not have gotten much of any kind of snow this season. One of the reasons I love the area we live in is because we get to fully experience all of the seasons, but it has felt like all we got out of winter this year was cold, weird and dreary. I am done with that. Bring me some warmth and some color please.

 

Drifting

But, sadly… not here. At least not this year. I haven’t seen snow like that since I took this picture seven years ago. Unless we get something major before spring, we will have been lucky to have gotten even a tiny fraction of that amount all season. I like winter, but it better come with snow otherwise the cold just isn’t worth the effort.

Goodbye 2017

Wishing everyone a peaceful and happy new year! I’ll leave you with some of my favorites from this year.

Frozen Bubble
Sunny Fall Maple Leaves
Colorful Gourds
Red/Orange Fall Maple
Golden Morning
Rain On A Windshield
Yellow Orange Rose
October Sunrise
Rain Drop
Autumn Sedum
Morning Snail
olar Eclipse 2017 – Near Totality
Itsy Bitsy (NOT) Spider
Foggy Sunrise
New Boxwood Growth
Rock Step Trail – Colorado – 2017
Garden of The Gods/Pikes Peak
January Sunrise – 2017
Frozen Fog – 2017

 

More Snow

We got more snow this morning. Not a lot. Probably less than an inch, but it was a nice refresh to what we got the other day and that had already mostly melted. I like seeing it on the ground, stuck in the branches of the trees and on the bushes. It is especially nice that there isn’t so much that the roads are bad. There is something about a new snow that makes the world feel fresh and new and clean. Continue reading “More Snow”