After the Storm!

We woke to about a foot of fresh snow from yesterday's storm, and a world that's been transformed to white.  Real winter has arrived.

Since I'm not supposed to be doing a lot of snow-blowing yet,  I called our local farmer friend, and he was here by 8 a.m. - cleared the driveway in about 6 minutes!

The usual winter boots wouldn't do in this snow, so out came the old mukluks,  good enough for the foot deep snow without getting snow down your sox!

The dog and I wandered the yard and I snapped a few pix.  It's a challenge to keep a garden looking interesting in the winter, but this short bit of fence I built provides a really nice background all year.

This is a large rusted steel flower sculpture in summer, with a dense Clematis vine now entangled around it.  It now adds an interesting winter feature to the garden as well as all year.

This fence really does divide the 'cultivated' or 'manicured' part of the garden from the work area and shed, and the 'wilderness' of the meadow out behind.  As you can see, the snow was pretty heavy.

Once of our benches nestled among the lilacs, deep in snow.

And these old Coneflower seedheads with their caps of snow really appealed to me, especially when I was able to manoeuvre myself to position them in front of those dark pine trees for a picture.

Recovery continues to go well; hit 10,000 steps a day twice now.  But I'm really enjoying the enforced idleness too.  Normally I"m almost too active, always on the move doing something, and what gets left out is the time to sit and think, and to write.  So I'm sitting daydreaming and finding it very constructive - if only I can translate that into some serious writing!

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