End of Year

Two snowstorms this past week...about a foot total. Nice to have snow...for us, animals and dormant plants. Winds were high yesterday...blowing snow off trees and across the snow covered pond.
Saw prints of deer, squirrel and maybe slides from the otters from pond to brook.

December 8, 2012

When we returned from Jamaica, the ponds were frozen solid and our first Saturday back, snow fell lightly. Now it looks more early November-like. The ground is bare and yellow and the forest and wetlands are cold soggy. Beatitude Pond looks fuller than I remembered.
We thought that pond would never overflow the driveway as it's a few feet down, but now I am not so sure. The beavers reinforced the dam at the edge of the pond well before the summer's end.
Will we get much snow this season? so far it's looking like another warm winter.
A bug was on the outside bedroom window screen yesterday. Not normally a December visitor.
The resident squirrel is huge...like a monster squirrel.