More Snow.

3-21-11 VERMONT: Every day is different. Yesterday, after a cold night, the snow was solid again, and snowshoeing was fun and easy and the dogs were running around on top. The day was bright sun, and we were out in the pasture for quite a while. Val and Lucy arrived in the afternoon and Lucy was saucering down the frozen hillside and across the pond with Gus as escort. Later she got too close to the pond drain, which was flowing, and broke through the ice, getting wet to the waist. She said it was more than refreshing.

Today, after the passage of the Vernal Equinox, we awoke to overcast skies and new snow, about an inch an hour, five inches so far. The sun is now back in the northern hemisphere, our days are now longer than our nights, more so the farther north we happen to be. Now we push on to the Summer Solstice, hoping that some of the snow may have melted by then.

New blooms: snowdrops [almost].


These guys don't need a calendar, just a gap in the snow. If you look closely, there's a new columbine leaf and a new violet leaf.

Flying Saucer and Occupant.

New white out.

Snow drops on Snowdrops.