Today, for the first time this season, we had "shovelable" snow. Ironically, this occured on Groudnhog Day. For the first time since 1999, Phil did not see his shadow, indicating an earlier spring (well if you believe in folklore such as that). Today's weather looked like nothing even remotely close to spring, with big flakes of white precipitation falling from the heavens and blanketing the land in white. The kids, of course, were beside themselves with excitement over the whole event and, when I casually mentioned that after they got on the bus I was going to shovel, Emily said, "Only shovel the driveway please, not the backyard." This was funny becasue, well, have you seen the size of my backyard? That and who the heck would ever shovel their yard? I did manage to get out and shovel the deck, stairway and the entire driveway and thankfully, it was the light fluffy kind of snow that's easy to just push out of the way (as opposed to the heavy, "wet" snow that sometimes actually hurts to shovel).
Anyway, it had been so long since we had seen snow (or any real good amount of it anyway) I just had to take pictures.
Demonstrating that there was enough show to shovel...barely, but enough.
I love when you can actually see the snowflakes in the picture. They were the big fluffy, white kind that just make everything look beautiful.
"Untouched" snow in the driveway., with a falling flake just to make it even more picturesque.
Wouldn't this be the best Christmas tree? As Emily put it, "This one belongs in Rockerfeller Center."
Wow! Apparently we wound up on opposite sides of the snow line. You got what the snowfall map implies we should have. Sometimes 5 miles (or whatever it is exactly) is all the difference in the world.
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