Last night's 2 inches are melting in the sun. The trouble is our court has not been plowed, nor the neighborhood road leading to it. Mark will be walking out and report back how close the plows are. We tried to move our van and our (light wimpy) pickup but could not go anywhere.
Weather watching Jan 2014 Snow
The only things visible in snow were Alfie's nose and eyes :o).
Speedie---
Yrah--looks very "fairy-tale like---doesn't it?
Dickens??/--No way! There's a car in the driveway...
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speedie---I cannot find the 1yr. old potted WS . It is under 2' of snow....
I will take good care of it and pass it on to you some other time.
Meanwhile--you will have a bunch of seeds.
Will D-mail you about their germination.
G.
Alfie is sooooo cute!! I'm still trying to talk H. into getting another doggie, but he's not ready yet since our dog died last spring. Our 'ol girl wore him out towards the end... she was indeed a handful. Loved her so much though. We have a cat, Lucy, who acts like a dog lol
Anyway, nice night pic Gita. I snapped a few this morning. It was really beautiful. Snow stuck to every surface and tree limb. More snow again tomorrow or so they say.
Sunny, cheery and warm now with major melting going on
Great photos there!
We have just been slugging along with cold since last week, and all the great snow/ice storm went south of us then up north along the coast to you.
We are now due for a 2-4" dump this evening, a cold weekend, and then spring arrives next week...
Ditto - great photos! I was surprised to see so much snow on them. We're in the same zone, but the only snow accumulation was on my yews, even last night. We didn't have that beautiful winter wonderland scene - just 14" of heavy, sticky snow to shovel. After struggling with a shovel to which snow adhered, I smeared ski wax all over it...worked like a charm!
I live very close to greenthumb and ecnalg - ditto what he said about double digits of accumulation and a lot of drifting here. Mike has a big rubber tired tractor/snow plow that he uses to get our mile long lane cleared out, but lately he has been subcontracting to help out the town of Leesburg so keeping up with our lane takes a back seat. I am thankful that we never lost power this go around.
It is snowing/sleeting again right now, so I guess it was a good call to cancel the seed swap. What a bummer this winter has been - too much already, where is SPRING?
Brilliant, Muddy!
Wind, those are fantastical photos, absolutely gorgeous! "Oohed" and "Aahed" out loud... then the show was over. :(
Gita, no, sorry, you must get out there and dig through your 50' of snow RIGHT NOW for that WS for me! .... YEAH, RIGHT!! Haahahaaaaa!!!!!!! Get to it when you're darned good and ready Darlin', I ain't goin' nowhere. =) And, in the interim, I'll just sit here being very thankful for you. =)
It got quite warm here yesterday, which melted a lot of our snow. Nothing on the trees anymore, the road is entirely clear and just wet, and even the un-shoveled driveway is down to barley a scrim.
Supposed to rain/snow this morning, which is lovely (tongue-in-cheek) as this is the time I NEED to do my errand running. Oh swell. All donations of prayers accepted and appreciated. =)
So far we have drizzle and above freezing temps in central Anne Arundel, which should mean its melting for coleup also. It is good we haven't heard a lot of power outages around here this go around.
Some snow falling here in Loudoun County but above-freezing temps. Don't expect significant impact on driving conditions.
It is snowing here. Very fine but very fast.
Nothing happening here in E. Baltimore County around White Marsh.
No snow....No rain.....but the sky looks ominous...like, it's coming.
The apron of my driveway looks like sheer ice...
That's where all the snow melt runs down to the street.
I think, today, I will sterilize a bunch of cell packs and fill them with Pro Mix
so they are ready for planting seeds or Coleus cuttings. .
I feel like I should do SOMETHING productive.
Might take cuttings from all my leggy Coleus, which now are over a foot
tall. They are all perking up, growing nicely....BUT---can't plant them out the way they are..
The bottoms will re-grow and the tops will root again. Will have more to share.
G.
10:30AM---
Just started snowing here...G.
We have snow flurries here, but it's above freezing and I really hope it stays that way! I want to do some "snow sowing" in the woods this weekend, but getting to the meadow in need of wildflowers involves crossing a creek by walking on rocks or wading, which I know is a stupid idea when the rocks are slippery...sigh - moist, cold stratification in the fridge it is.
Here's a photo of one of my "adopted" meadows - the one that is sorely lacking in wildflowers. This was taken in late August.
That is a beautiful location.
Are there VA Blue bells there in the spring? Looks like the perfect location for them.
Oh Muddy, what a beautiful and serene location! Yes, I agree, VA Bluebells would be perfect there... being in Virginia and all... ;)
Left the house this morning a hair after 8:00 to run my errands; got home just after 11:40, unpacked all the groceries from the truck, put all of 'em away, glanced outside and it had begun snowing. PRAISE THE LORD, and thank You for waiting 'til after I got home!! < =D
It's sort of a sleety/snowy mix right now.
Any of y'all going out, please be careful!
12:30 PM the precipitation has stopped and the skies are brightening. Negligible accumulation.
Muddy, I agree that is a truly beautiful location. What wildflowers are you planting there?
I want to sow Monarda fistulosa (wild Bergamot), Lobelia siphilitica (blue cardinal flower), Asclepias tuberosa, Scutellaria incana (downy skullcap), Impatiens capensis (jewel weed), Veronicastrum virginicum (Culver's Root), NOID goldenrod and NOID cutleaf coneflower.
I've already sowed tons of Asclepias syriaca and (if I remember correctly) tons of Conoclinium coelestinum (Blue Mistflower), as well as a small amount of Vernonia noveboracensis (New York iron weed).
I don't think there are Virginia bluebells there already, but I might have missed them. I'm going to photograph every wildflower that pops up this year.
Sally, I'll give you back your thread now : )
We're getting snow again now that is sticking to the roads and all the trees making the winter wonderland look once again. Beautiful, but feels so cold
Periods of flurries today but nothing accumulated here. Got gusty and cold.
Muddy, you can HAVE it when you post beautiful Mid Atlantic streamside photos!!!!! Good luck with the flowers.
I think our flurries stopped already too... which is fine with us!!
Thanks, Sally!
We had the same weather here: flurries (preceded by rain) with no accumulation, then a cold wind.
Our weather might be tough this year but, have you seen the conditions in Great Britain? I'm glad to be up to my asters in snow, rather than flood waters. Cold weather flooding can be the absolute worst, hampering clean up and causing even more damage, The people who experienced Sandy and many along the Susquehanna can attest to that. Hopefully the coming melt will not be too damaging.
I'm worried about the up-coming melt that is gonna hit Michigan, they've got tons and tons of MOUNTAINS of snow to melt. Not gonna be fun. I hear much of the snow has had to be dumped onto islands in Lake Michigan, just for somewhere to put it.
Because part of the lakes are frozen the caves along the waters edges are accessible by walking over the ice to see them. They are a frozen wonderland.
Remember after the snowmageddon, mountains of snow in our parking lots for the longest time?
Today we'll be watching snow MELT. I think. It's bright and sunny but still pretty cold.
More snow predicted here--1-3"--starting tonight...
50's by mid-week....look out for the floods!
I also worry about the 3 years of drought in the West and the resulting out-of-control wildfires. Wouldn't it be fantastic if we could have pipelines to transfer the excess water on the East Coast to the west?
Holly, here are some links to the Donahue Sea Caves my daughter and DGS went to last week over frozen water!
http://mckennedy.org/blog/2014/01/16/the-donahue-sea-caves-in-burlington-vermont/
Speedie, my friends on the Upper Peninsula in Michigan said anyone who didn't have a second story on their house lived in darkness because the snow piles were higher than the first floor windows!
Those caves are really cool (no pun intended)!
I hope the weather turns warmer slowly enough to minimize the flooding.
That is really neat Coleup, such a cool thing to see.
I am not a duck; anyone here know how to kayak? :) Those caves are absolutely gorgeous, Judy, and the artwork that artist did on those shots is magnificent.
My Mamma and Grammy in law live just south of "The Thumb" in MI, and they talk all the time about the houses they drive past with snow WELL up past the first floor windows. Eeepy creepy!! They also tell of huge mountains of snow over which children have carved paths and trails, and "hike" them like they were true mountain ranges. They're so frozen solid due to the long-term cold there, no one has fallen through or in - it's just too solid. I'm with you, Muddy, I hope the warm-up happens slowly. I don't think Ma or Grammy are ducks either.
One of my very favorite books from youth is Five Boys In A Cave by Richard Church
"Five boys become friends over a summer vacation. They discover a cave and decide to explore it. They become trapped and must try to find a way out. Each boy shows the kind of person he really is in how he responds to stress, how he helps with or worsens the situation."
Great adventure for hunkering in my winter cave !
awesome family hike there!
It must have been cold up there in Vermont!
Is that a bird track next to your hand? Maybe an eagle or great blue heron? Something big, that's for sure.
Love that henna design : )
great blue heron, I'd say
Poor guy probably isn't finding much food now that the water's all frozen. I bet he's regretting his decision not to migrate.