Snowflakes that Stay

One of our favourite songs comes from The Sound of Music -- My Favourite Things.

One of the verses runs, "Girls in white dresses, with blue satin sashes; Snowflakes that stay on your nose and eyelashes."

Well not so much the girls, but today scored big on the second part of that.

We are constantly being asked if we have any snow this winter.  Yes, would be the short answer.

Today we got even more. Brian has been busy moving it out of driveways, and grooming it on trails.

The Ancient Mariners group is here -- one commented to me that it was like skiing through a Christmas card.

Snow like this sticks beautifully to trees. It muffles sound.  It reduces the view to the immediate (we can ask Dave about that, in another post: he was out in the fish hut for the afternoon)  It brought a lot of birds to the feeders as well.

The horses were happy outside, munching on hay.  Squeegee has such a thick winter coat that not enough heat escapes to melt the snow.  By the time he came in for the evening, he was just a walking snowball.

Taffy was more than happy to demonstrate how deep the snowfall was.

She's on one of the driveways, before Brian got to it with the plow.

So, to answer the question, is there snow up there?  Why, yes.

And it is one of our favourite things.