I've been working on my new cowl and thinking how nice it will be for next winter but now I think I need to finished it up to wear this spring. We've had a cold, blustery day followed by a cold, blustery, snowy evening. It started just as I was leaving my office. By the time we got home after Rob finished work it was covering the porch and when we went out for dinner an hour later we couldn't see our footprints. Our squirrel looked very chilly at the feeder with all his fur fluffed up against the wind.

We've been having a crazy amount of snow this year. This is our side deck. Two weeks ago today it had absolutely no snow on it. Now I'm not even sure where the steps are. We've had even more snow since I took this picture. Thank heavens they ploughed our street on Sunday or we would never have gotten out of our driveway yesterday (as it was we still got stuck a few times getting home after work - a crew of 7 or 8 people who were walking by helped push us out). I've never seen this much snow so quickly here; our climate is normally pretty dry and it would take us half the year to collect this much snow.

It's bad for walking through too. I feel like I'm wading in rough water or something. You wouldn't think so but it's slippery too since under all that snow in most places (i.e. roads, sidewalks) there are just sheets of ice so even if you get all the way through the snow there is nothing for your boots (or wheels) to grip. It will actually be a relief when the temperature drops a little further and the snow firms up. Until then we're getting lots of exercise (shovelling, trying not to fall over).

At least everything looks very pretty. Even the scraggly pine trees at the back of our lot have a romantic charm with this much snow on them.