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February snowing round 2

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Actually, it is hard to remember what round we are in. From the end of January into February over six days, we received about forty inches of snow in three storms. From the first image here, taken during the first storm (labeled as a blizzard, this was twenty inches), you can see that the basement window is not yet blocked by any snow.

The front of the main house, image 2 here, required some shoveling out at the basement windows by the third or fourth storm. Snow had reached the glass for about two inches. The low temperatures which are following these storms (again, not usual for the last decade plus) are resulting in little melting and the snow is accumulating from storm to storm.

The south side of the garage has a snow drift from the roof that is as high as the garage windows. There is a slope so that snow is not pressing onto any window glass, yet. It is possible to climb up this drift and touch the garage roof.

My truck is parked at an angle with the left side now being inundated from the garage roof drift. Digging the truck out is a multi day project complicated by absence of anywhere to put the snow being removed.

Into the woods on a January day

johngregsite Posted on 24-Jan-2015 by john7-Feb-2015

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D81_0237_150110_02xAfter the start of the year, we had some sunny weekends that allowed some walking in the woods. The upper bog area, a smaller portion of the back forest and still part of the creek that empties the larger bog, is shown here. Like the big bog, it was fully forested when we first moved here. Our beaver colony turned it into the bog it is today.

As any bog, it supplies living material for numerous flora and fauna. Here, in the second and third pictures, one sees dead things mostly; dead in name only.

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