I SUPPOSE IF you were to compare the Pacific Northwest to, say, Alaska or Siberia or Manitoba, you would agree that our winters are comparatively mild. And they are, mostly. I mean rainfall is abundant, clearly. And wind can be annoyingly violent at times but it's all doable. Nothing too dramatic in these parts. No siree.
But then we all have the occasional freak "weather event" (the media call it). It seems like these weird, anomalies are happening a lot this year. But winter is over now. I mean, many of you are having 80 degree weather. And some of you, like
Darla and
FlowerLady, in Florida are having 90 degree weather. Hooray it's springtime!
OR NOT
Just when we thought we were out of the woods, WHAM.
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| Taken at 11ish this morning. |
Yep. No spring daffodils to be seen in these parts. They're buried under a foot of snow!
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| The front yard and the cars after a bit of melting. |
The snow started before I woke yesterday morning. At 6:30 AM, when my alarm went off, it was coming down. By 10 PM, when I went to bed, it was STILL coming down. It was a continual buildup all day long. Never before, at least to my {admittedly limited} recollection has there been in these parts a snowstorm that just kept dumping more and more and more snow, it like it did yesterday.
Okay there. I got that out of my system.
Since the snow is awfully pretty, I thought I'd post a few photos I took from my garden. Then below the snow photo, a summer photo of the same area because, we all know summertime and green and flowers and birdsong are what we're all longing for now, right?
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| March 22, 2012 |
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| June 2010 |
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| March 22, 2012, the patio, looking north |
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| August, 2010, rainy day photo looking north |
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| March 22, 2012, looking to the south lawn area. |
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| The south lawn in June, 2011 |
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| The pathway to the edge of the north garden, March 21, 2012 |
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| The north garden area last June, 2012 |
