Snow day
It snowed last night, a heavy, wet snow, unlike our normal dry powder. This was the kind of snow that lingered on branches and made the area look very Currier and Ives-like.
We had small branches draped with the stuff:
We had the pea cables and posts topped off with white confection:
(The pea cables are a particularly proud piece of work from the hands of OmegaDad. They don’t quite work the way we had planned, but they do provide a scaffolding for the pea plants to climb up–so long as we remember to get out there and start lacing pea runners properly early and often. Otherwise our peas end up turning into viny clumps.)
This little lovely–a snow-covered rosehip–was in a very awkward spot. I tried shooting it without the flash, but the light was dim enough that it needed to have a slow shutter, and the awkward spot made it so that every time I tried without the flash, my hands shook just enough so it was completely out of focus. But the flash shot makes it pop, and it was so pretty, I thought I’d include it anyway:
The rosebushes here in Alaska have great big fat rosehips, the size of the last joint of my thumb. We tried making jams from rosehips this summer; alas, the rosehips themselves have a pretty blah taste. One would expect them to be zappy and zingy in flavor, but, no, they’re just very bland.
Our back yard:
The pictures were shot at about 3:30 p.m. It was cloudy and still snowing, and the sun is setting at 3:58, so everything is rather dim. Rumor has it we got six inches of snow; this is enough of a snowfall to warrant its own listing of snowfall totals from around the area on the National Weather Service forecast page. We are still about 11 inches short on normal snowfall–we got plenty of precipitation in the form of rain earlier in the fall/winter, when the weather was still unseasonally warm.
It’s very pretty. The kids (the dotter has her best friend A. over to spend the night) got cold and soaked from an hour of playing in it.
