So far, this winter has been odd. There was barely any snow in December and January – enough to say that there was snow – but it didn’t stay. Now we’re getting it all at once, it seems: last Thursday’s storm brought about 9” / 22 cm in our neck of the woods.

Then, on Sunday, we got another storm that continued into today.

Although a cold makes this sudden slew of shoveling difficult to cope with, the woods look really beautiful and I’m glad for that.