It is raining this morning after a cold stretch. Yesterday morning it was clear and still with a temperature of just under 10 Fahrenheit. I spent part of the afternoon chipping ice out of the driveway, especially around the front door. The dogs were out it was warm for this winter and I was enjoying a fine winter day.
Yesterday I had let the dogs out for their afternoon run and chance to play in the snow. I was filling the wood box in the house and making trips between the garage and the House. On my last trip I happened to glance up and catch out of the corner of my eye two birds flying into the pine tree alongside the driveway. One was quite small, a chickadee turned out and the other I assumed at first to be a mourning dove. Both landed in the pine and for a second all was quiet. Soon though the chickadee began flying frantically through the branches of the pine with the larger bird in hot pursui
After two of weeks of fairly warm weather where it looked like the snow might even disappear. Winter has returned, in fact we are in the middle of a very snowy stretch of whether. We had snow on Wednesday Thursday and Friday and it is snowing again this morning. None of these events have put down big accumulations but we seem to get five or six inches almost every time. The last couple of storms have been light and fluffy snow with little wind so everything is covered.
