Last week's ice storm

The day after last week's ice storm, I snapped this picture coming out of work. Everything was still covered with ice, and the sun's rays were reflected everywhere. In fact I could not capture the picture I wanted to because I couldn't get the camera to focus with all the light. The ice was incredible. Even the blades of grass were coated. What was unusual is that the ice stayed on everything for several days. I had a silver birch tree in the backyard completely bent over so that the tip was touching the ground. It was like that for two days. Thank goodness they are such resilient trees. It has been a weird winter. We have finally begun to have seasonable weather.

Spring Already??!!

My last post celebrated the fact that we finally had some snow on the ground. But wait this is New England, and the weather is notorious for rapid changes. The snow lasted but a day, and has been followed by unseasonably warm weather. On Saturday (1-6-06), it was 65 degrees outside! My dad down in Connecticut told me that the state recorded the warmest day ever for January since records have been kept! Global Warming? Something's different this year, that's for sure. My grape hyacinths have begun to poke their heads up out of the ground. I took a look around to see if the crocus or daffodils were making an early appearance, but no sign of them yet. I even saw some robins yesterday morning when I went out for a walk. Talk about January thaw! We didn't have December freeze!