March 18th, 2008
snow world
On March 8th, I wrote about the rapidly increasing snow around the farm. Over the past couple of days, the mild weather has knocked the snow back quite a bit. However, we’re still left with heaps of it everywhere we look. Yesterday, driving through the parking lot of a large shopping mall, it was as though I was driving through a field of icebergs. Snow was heaped so high that other vehicles weren’t visible until they popped out from behind a tall, snowy crag.
In the comments, I mentioned that I’d try to take a few photos of the snow accumulation for those who have expressed snow envy in the past. This is just an assortment of shots taken in the yard or through the windows of the house over the past week or so. They probably don’t need captions, but I’ve added a few words to identify the scenes.
For the past couple of weeks, the snow around the living room window was so high that it was like peering out of a snowy bunker (top and above photo – click on all photos for larger views).
This was the scene through the front window during the storm that heaped snow on us about 10 days ago. As you can see, the snow lies in fluffy drifts, most of which were about 5 feet high.
This was how the lane looked after the most recent snow. The snow was over knee deep and had drifted much higher in some places.
Here’s the studio building after the snow removal fellow had paid a visit. I’ve stopped trying to keep the path to the front door cleaned out as I’ve been hard-pressed just to keep things clear to the front porch of our house. I’ll let the sun clean things up.
This is the back yard as seen through our bedroom window. The snow has drifted and the surface nicely sculpted by the wind. The fire garden lies beneath the sea of snow, just to the left of the tall spruce tree. As you can see, the adirondack chairs (our measuring sticks) are completely submerged. With any luck, perhaps most of the snow will recede and they’ll reappear by the end of March (ha!!!).