We had a temperature of -3 overnight Thursday. The catalpa tree took umbrage. In the morning, the Catalpa tree said, nah uh, and began dropping leaves. I raked them all onto the garden, to keep everyone and everything cozy. I figured, if we had snow, they'd be slippery.
Sunday morning, snowfall! About 7cm. The good news is, as my friend Val wrote, there won't be any ticks today. She had 200 in October, 79 the rest of the year. We have had our fewest in a number of years (70), but October was awful (31).
Outside, I went. My goal was to shake it off the lowest branches. It was hard work! I was soaking wet. It was a good work out.
The poor little lilacs!
The majestic white pines...branches reaching for the earth.
We only lost a couple of branches.
Once I was done, it all looked so much better. The lilacs are standing up, again.
Our white pines recovered, the snow melted during the day.
JB kindly did the back deck, as I was baffed.
The maple tree leaves are golden, falling softly to the ground.
The goldfish pond is slushy on top. The evergreen branches have lightened up, and all is melting.
Then, there is Hooper... he was a year old in August, we think. He didn't go outside last year. He likes the snow. The snow was falling off the phlox, he thought there could be mice friends in there.
From here, he went into the backyard and did his business. What a boy!
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We have had some snow swirls but no accumulation. The first real snow is always so pretty -- before the reality of snow removal sts in.
Hari Om
bbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Does look pretty though! YAM xx
Wow, you folks got more than us! My cousin had to drive from Ottawa to Peterborough late Saturday evening and she said it was HORRIBLE.
It's all gone here, except where the "snowbanks" fell off the cars. It's raining with an occasional snowflake in the mix this morning. Isn't it supposed to get into the double digits sometime this week?
I would think his paws would be frozen!!! What a lad. Yes, your leaves will soon be all gone, to the ground to make mulch and goodness for the earth. Wet down here, just drizzle and not cold.
Hooper seems fascinated!
Heavy wet snow can be very damaging. You did what you could.
Lucky you to have got rain and snow - that is water! We need a lot of water to make it up for the dry fields and empty reservoirs. Hopefully, we'll get it in the next months.
I got some nice pics of the snow, which won't get posted for days yet as the queue is quite long.
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