Winter Just Doesn't Want to go Away!

We've had some warmer days and a little bit of melting.  The piles of snow out front that were 6 feet have now subsided to 4 feet, but it's the middle of March for Heaven's sake.  We don't need this!  The forecast does look promising, but we have to wait for next week first.  I'm beginning to feel cooped in.

This beautiful sunny day three weeks ago was the peak of our snowfall; the yellow chair was almost buried.

In fact both chairs had a heavy cap of snow.  But I thought maybe those chairs would give me the basis of a comparison as the melt progressed.  The melt has progressed very slowly (most days not at all), but here goes.

We had a fairly big melt at first, the snow just sinking down into itself.

When you get a big melt, the snow surface is left hard and crusty.  At times you can walk right across snow like this.  But there's still 16" of snow here.

A few days later it snowed again, raising the snow level back up and leaving a surface of powder snow.

Then it melted again, though just a little.

Over the last 2 or 3 days it melted down a little further.  Today is a bright sunny day and I'm sure the snow is going to melt  even further.

And just to remind you, in case your memory does not extend

this far, this was the garden last year on this date - dwarf Iris peaking up!