Around four this morning the dark and cloudy skies filled with wind full of snow.
The air was roiling with tiny flakes of frozen water. As the night lightened into day the wind has continued to blast the trees and pelt the buildings.
Min-Min cat met me at the back door telling me she wasn’t going to spend the day in the barn, the shop or the shed–Thank you very much! Today she is an inside cat!
The whole sky is shades of gray and white. I can hear the whistle of wind around the eves of the house and rustling the fire in the wood stove.
The ground is all white now…chilly and soft all at once. The air is sharp and full of shards, but the ground is starting to look like a Christmas card.
From my world to your heart,
Linda
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goo oo ood photo of the (w)ring-necks!
yeah, black-dog woke me up @ “dark-thirty” as he usually does to go outside and pee … and, he went about two feet from the door and stopped. and like you chronicled, not only steady white-stuff but WIND-WHIPT as well. I went on a couple inside errands myself so as not to half to wait, and sure enuff, he was still parked, indecisive, exercising bladder control a couple minutes later. NOW it’s well past daylite-thirty and the phenomenon you describe is, of course, still ongoing. think we’ll go out and try to run, anyway …
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Terry says we are still going to GJ to get the building material he needs. I hope the roads are okay!
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no! well … you guise have lotsa ice/snow/crappy condishunz deriving XXXpeerience. I just drove 4 miles (4WD F150) to go run a trail, only slipped once, saw perhaps half-a-dozen vehicles do a bit of sliding, and while running slipped and fell on a flat open section of the trail and banged a knee. typical first major snowstorm of the season, I suppose ~
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Hurting your knee is a terrible thing for a runner and hockey player. Hope it’s not too bad.
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slipping in the snow whilst pretending to run is NOT “fault-less” — I could-a/should-a been more careful. Now … driving to/from GJ yesterday was much more of either an ordeal or adventure or more probably a combination of both ?
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We were on our way to a basketball game in Parachute. We wanted to watch our Grandson play…but the high school canceled the game, just as we made it to Cameo. So we were able to turn around and get back home safely!
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Snowing here a bit too :-).
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Nice snow is okay…I suppose. 😦
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Zero here on the front rante with snow & wind ~ It’s Stock Show weather for sure! Stay by that fire 🙂
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It’s terrible ugly other there. Sigh!
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I don’t blame Min-Min for wanting to be an indoor cat on a day like this. We’ve got the cold temperatures here, but no snow. Someone I know is very disappointed about that.
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BETSY!!! She loves the snow! I do but I’m not fond of blizzards.
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It’s 3am here, and the whole of our wooden house is creaking and shifting. The wind has risen sharply and the rain is lashing down. Out the front, the floodwater channel is in spate. Oh, and it’s 75°F… Welcome to the tropics, baby!
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TRADE YOU!!!! Just for one day and one storm…oh, wait, better yet lets both do your storm together!!!
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Yes, I think on the whole I’d rather have our storm too!
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You make me smile!
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That looks quite awful – poor you – hope you have no need to go out there! c
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Well, no animals, but I still must haul wood and Terry must keep the roadways open. Hope it doesn’t get to you. It’s terrible and the cold is worse!
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Brrrr! I don’t mind the snow, but the wind – no thank you! Hope there is no damage.
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The wind is the worst!
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We might get the first snow here since 1960. I hope not. I’d rather it stay in the mountains
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I hope it stays in the mountains! Snow and freezing cold doesn’t belong where the almonds grow.
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Linda, you are quite good at making a very natural thing turn into a brizzling and happy adventure, using poetry, pictures and imagination. It’s ever soo nice!!!
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Why, Thank you so much, Solveig! I appreciate your kind words!
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Min-Min is a very smart kitty!
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She is! And refuses to go out with snowdrifts taller than her belly now.
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You got snow, I hope it snowed in the mountains too! 🙂
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It did! Lots! Water for next year!
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Smart Min Min .. love the description .. the ground is starting to look like a Christmas card. Stay warm Linda 😃
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Albeit a very windswept Christmas card! Brr very cold here.
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