Snow fell all morning. The wind blew, small wind funnels catching in the space between our house and the garage, between the cars, a whirling dervish on the small deck by the back door. Above is the view out the kitchen window looking out at the back yard around noon.
From the side kitchen window about the same time.
More snow. We opened the back door and shoveled the small back deck so we can get out of the house that way if need be. I restocked the bird feeder that hangs at the far corner of the garage (hidden in the photos here because it has been blown to the back of the garage by the wind.) Today I've seen an American Goldfinch at the thistle sock, a Black Capped Chickadee at the suet and the thistle sock, my regular visitors, the Dark Eyed Juncos, on the ground below the feeder I restocked (and probably on the feeder, but I can't see them from the house), a Northern Cardinal feeding on the seed I spilled when I restocked the feeder, some sort of Sparrow - perhaps a Field Sparrow - also feeding on spilt seed. The most amazing was the American Goldfinch, clinging to the thistle sock as the wind whipped it around and around, feeding the whole time. Gutsy little fellow. Here's a picture I took when the Goldfinch took a break and landed in the bare branches of the honeysuckle vine that twine across the kitchen window. He rested out of the wind a moment, and then went back to the thistle.
David made fish chowder for dinner and we had some for lunch. More snow. Snow creeping up toward the windows on the west side of the house.
The east side of the house has a strip of almost bare grass. Our neighbor's car next door on that side is almost buried, and apparently blocking the snow from that side of our house. I took Ella out to that strip of ground so she could do her business. Pee was all she wanted to do and then she pulled for the door.
David's car back on the west side of the house:
The small back deck is filling up with snow again, David had cleared it and the last time I looked the snow was back to about 6 or 7 inches.
The wind is still blowing, the snow is still falling, but cars are now out and about from time to time, going down our street faster than I would recommend. The corner store and gas station's lights are out. Not open I guess. I'd estimate we have 4 to 6 feet of snow in drifts on our driveway. Tomorrow ought to be an interesting day.
3:04 p.m. Snow. Wind.
Peace, peace, far and near.
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