Winter temps are below normal now. The lowest temperature has gone eleven below zero Fahrenheit and the snow is sticking around.
Category Archives: Snow
Tree Precipitation
A record amount of precipitation has fallen in the area this year. Trees, like this Green King Hybrid Elm, are all frosted over on this last day of the year. Even the trees wanted to add precipitation to the already saturated landscape. The wind started to blow, and the frost started floating down, as if […]
Freezing Rain
Freezing rain glazed over the forest. The sun helped light up the ice in the crowns of the trees.
Spiraeacicles
The Spiraea bush is full of icicles from above. The freezing water is starting to weigh down the bush.
Green & White
The Maxie Pear has continued to hold onto leaves into December. The leaves were reddish when young, but have greened up.
Winter Scene
It is only the start of December and it is already beginning to look like Christmas. So far we have escaped any large snow accumulations.
Calville Blanc d’Hiver
Calville Blanc d’Hiver apple tree still had the leaves on it when the freezing rain hit the other day. The tree is bending to the ground, but now I shook some of the ice off, so it is straightening back out.
Iced Landscape
Some freezing rain has iced over everything on my Oasis.
Snow Grasshopper
A warm day resulted in grasshoppers trying to wake up enough and jump around on the snow. They better hope the hungry Guineas don’t find them.
Snow Grazing
The goats didn’t want to wait for the snow to melt. They went out onto the snowy pasture to eat any green blades of grass they can see.