What a remarkable snowfall!  We have 18 inches and it is still coming down.  Bob has been out plowing the snow (playing in the snow?) all morning and we’re still buried!  No problems with the greenhouses so far, knock-on-wood.  Our staff is happy that we are closed and they don’t have to come to work today!

When you can get outside today, take a broom and gently knock the snow off your evergreens. A snow this wet and heavy can bend them down or even break them. 

We woke up today to a thick layer of drifted snow everywhere– driveway, patio, against the garage… So what does my wonderful husband shovel out first?  The bird feeding area.  He just couldn’t stand eating his own breakfast while the birds couldn’t get to theirs. 

Good news in that area: the red winged blackbirds are back!  They always mean that spring is coming.  Everyone thinks it’s the robin that marks the coming of spring, but they actually spend the winter in the woods, while the blackbirds migrate and return about this time every year.   They’ll become a pest after a while as they increase in number and gobble up all the bird seed, but for a while at least, they are a welcome sight!

Written by Lynn on the slope of Teasel Hill where the snow has begun to melt a little.