Ten Inches Of Snow!
We just measured the accumulated snow on our deck, and we have TEN INCHES of snow! This is Seattle and that seems impossible. It’s beautiful and inconvenient. I’m really ready for it to go away now.
One of the interesting side effects of having fresh snow on the ground is that we can clearly see the animal tracks going through our back yard. Over the years here we’ve seen dozens of raccoons, innumerable squirrels and birds of all sorts. Not surprising since I have bird feeders in the front and back yards, and several bird houses as well. Birds are the modern-day descendents of dinosaurs, and until we resurrect the dinos, this is as good as it gets for me. But in the fresh snow, we’ve positively identified the tracks of a fox. We’ve suspected a few of them were living in the woods behind our house.
Fascinating stuff. Now let’s get back to summer please.