Now that Christmas Day is over and it wasn’t a real white one, I wouldn’t mind if it got warm and green again with blooming flowers. But instead the forecast is calling for 3 to 5 inches of snow with blowing snow and even some freezing rain so it will be months before flowers begin to bloom again.
Summer Iris
Last Christmas had a wintery look, but this year with the recent rains that melted much of the snow and exposed some grassy spots so it was more of a brown Christmas instead of a white one.
Last Year
The rain and above freezing temperatures today removed the white decorations from the trees so Christmas morning might not be so white, but the weather changes frequently and the forecast has some white snow decoration coming later in the day.
White Decorations on Pine Tree
Since today finally was above freezing, I took a walk down around my pond looking at all the critter tracks. There was a variety of tracks but no bear tracks and the pond that the bear went swimming in six months ago is now frozen.
Bear Swimming in Pond
It doesn’t take long after a snow fall for the critters to stomp down the snow and create their own highways on my lawn, especially heading towards the bird feeders.
Messed Up Snow
Even though there was snow early in the month, today is the official start of winter. But after shoveling the new snow today, I was thinking that it would be nice if it was the end of winter instead.
Start of Winter
The weather forecast has possible snow tomorrow, but this white isn’t from snowflakes. The white feathers collected in the weeds near the breaker wall of the harbor entry are from the sea gulls which often perch on the wall.
Feathery White
The shortest amount daylight will be Tuesday, but today is only nine seconds longer even though the sunset is actually earlier this evening than it will be on the shortest day because on that day, the sunrise is later.
Short Sunday Sunset
With the temperatures falling near zero this evening, the hole in the dead tree may provide some shelter to some birds to stay warm.
Hole in Tree
When walking a beach, I watch for interesting pieces of driftwood to see what sea monster shapes I can envision in the wood, but some times the creature looking thing is rather small like this little green monster.
Little Sea Monster
