Snow.

11-10-17 VERMONT: Fortunately I finished the garden beds yesterday because an arctic front came through during the night. Rain that preceded the front turned to snow when the temp fell into the twenties. The wind is blowing in the twenties with gusts much higher. We had one brief power outage earlier.

I’d like to clear the culvert, but the ‘feels like’ temp is 9°. The amount of snow is negligible, but it’s the first one of the year, more to come.

The hooded merganser was back on the pond this morning, oblivious to the cold and wind. I saw a pileated woodpecker several times this week working the apple trees along with the other birds.


The hooded merganser was back today in the wind, snow and cold. The surface of the pond has been shivering ion the wind.

'Winter is Coming.'

A dusting on the beds that I just cleaned out.

Not a day for rocking.

The wind is blowing like crazy.