Until next year...
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I post a picture and just a few words.
A few days ago, we got what I think will be our last snow until next winter. It's almost mid-March and the forecast is full of 40 °-50 ° days, so the snow will be a melted memory in a day or two.
I'm definitely ready for warmer days, but there's a small part of me that feels a little wistful about the snow's departure, only because it's so beautiful.
If only there was a way to go straight from snow to the green bloominess of April...to skip right over the brown weeks in between.
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Joshua's got two photos up this week from the storm before this one...an ice storm, which as arguably even more beautiful.
I would take the mud over snow. This has been one of the worst winters in recent memory. Between the bitter cold and the mountains of snow, I am ready for it all to be over.
I totally agree about having snow is better than the brown yuck before spring. Our snow is just about gone and we are let with a muddy mess. Can't wait to mow the lawn and see green grass.
We've had some lovely, picturesque snows in Wisconsin, like in your photo (I call it "Bambi" snow when it resembles the Disney movie) but I'm having a baby this month and nice weather sounds great! Our forecast looks pretty good! I was finally able to take the 2 and 4 yr old out on the patio and swings in their boots! They were so happy!
However, as the beautiful part of winter melts away, I'm realizing how gross it has gotten under our new bird feeder! Lol! Sunflower seeds everyewhere, tons of Rabbit pellets, and mud! Definitely not pristine!
We had very little snow this year and I can't wait to see the arrival of the spring!
Don't jinx it! 🙂 Although, I'm in Wisconsin, so at least one more snow is inevitable around these parts....
I try to view the brown weeks as weeks of hope and discovery. I just went for my first outside run in a while, and it was a game to see if I could spot any green shoots or buds. There are a few on the trees and bushes. It won't be long until the bloominess!
I love the snow too, and even though there was so much of it this year and I'm looking forward to working outside, I do share your wistfulness at seeing it melt.
I enjoy snow and winter, soups and the oven on, but I am ready to move on to outdoor projects, the grill and fresh veggies.
I'm afraid we still have another month of snow here in our neck of the woods. After two incredibly hard winters, even mud would be welcome! But snow IS pretty...
Ha! Well, living in Denver, I know better than to try to call "last snow" - especially in March (which is our snowiest month of the year.) Won't be out of the woods until late May on that one, but at least the weather between snowstorms is improving! 🙂
We haven't had any snow since January, and we really need it! Have had several brush fires close by already, and this is only March! I think the northeast got all the snow the northwest needed! At any rate, I love winter, and I think the worst season of the year is early spring with all the mud! Late spring though, is magnificent!
I'm not sure it's impossible to skip over the melting of snow (we affectionately call it Breakup) but here in Alaska, it only takes a few days once it gets going. Then it only takes a few days for everything to go from brown to green. When I went to the hospital to have my baby, there wasn't any green and when I came home 3 days later the grass was green and leaves were on the trees. I guess it's the sun that makes things change so quickly.
I live in Northern California, where it's been downright balmy almost all of 2015 so far. That sounds nice, but it portends a rough, drought-ridden summer--we had just enough rain to spark a lot of plant growth--terrible wild fires often follow. So while I love our beautiful weather, it's tinged with fear for our natural resources.
I lived in Ohio until I was 5. One of my very vivid memories was a spring day when the snow was melting--green grass peeked around clumps of wet, melting snow and rivulets of melting snow run off ran through the grass and trees. Since normally I would have been walking on sidewalks and pavement to and from school or to my grandma's house, I'm not sure why I was walking in a more woodsy area with friends, but it is a strong memory and it was very beautiful--the green grass was especially vibrant after winter's greys and white. There was slippery, wet brown mud, too, and the air was crisp and cold. I wish I had a photograph of what I can see so clearly in my mind's eye.