Snow Pictures


Let's see... Today is Saturday, and it is stinking cold.  We are in the midst of a "Polar Vortex" they are calling it.  It is 8 AM and our thermometer says it's 10 degrees outside.  Ugh.  According to the forecast I have seen it isn't supposed to get above freezing until Wednesday.  I can almost guarantee that Gary will get a phone call from someone who is puzzled because they don't have water.  Usually it's because either their light bulb or heater in their well house burned out, or because there was some sort of damage to the well house where the wind and/or cold was able to get in and freeze up the pipes or mechanisms in there.  I always feel bad for Gary when he goes out in this weather, but people are always happy to see him and to get their water back on. 

 Here are a few pictures from when it initially snowed mid week; the pictures must have been taken on Wed morning after we'd had a bit of snow the night before.

It had actually been above freezing and misty most of the day, then the temps dropped below freezing and the mist coated everything with a thin layer of ice.  The mist turned to snow which covered the ice.  Walking in these leaves was like walking on a scattering of large, crunchy frosted flakes.


 

 I have seen Fluffy in all sorts of weather, but had never been down to get a pic of her in the snow.  I like how the picture is almost completely black and white; it makes you pay more attention to the textures.



When there is a snow cover you get to see who else has been out there in the creek bottoms.  According to what I have read about tracking, this was a doe passing through.  Her tracks toe inward instead of outward.  Supposedly bucks toe outward.   

These tracks below I found interesting.  It's canine, and not Bella's tracks because they were going back the way we came from.  There were at least 2 sets and they made a steady, straight trail across the pasture right at the treeline.  I'd guess they were coyotes off on a mission and not that pack of dogs that was down there last week. 

Well, the sun is out now, but it is still just 10 degrees.  Bella really wants to go out for her walk.  She has had to stay inside for the past 24 hours due to the extreme cold.  She does OK out in her kennel or on a long walk for an hour or two, but I am not going to leave her out in sub-freezing temps for long.


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