Snow!

Wow - we've had ourself some serious snow these last couple of weeks. Big happy fluffy snow. It's so pretty...

Even my weird little metal flowers look pretty with the snow - like starts that fell from the sky.

Lugh loves the snow - he burrows in it and jumps around like a crazy bunny.

In between the two snowfalls we had what is called "ice rain". Now, like most people I thought, ice rain is when rain falls and then it turns to ice. Well, that's sort of true. Here, when the rain falls it immediately turns to ice. So all the trees were covered in sheaths of ice. Absolutely beautiful. They looked like diamonds in the noon sun. At night they glowed - as seen on my cherry tree out front.