WOWSNOW!

We bought this place on June 14, 2001.  Since then it has snowed about 5 times....mostly it's just dust and we don't get any good pictures.  But yesterday....it began to snow.  It continued snowing, on and on....more snow.  Now the weather was quite mild...in the lower 30ºs so it was a beautiful thing!  A few weeks ago (during kidding week), we had 15º-17º weather....that was BITTER cold.

But this is different.  It's beautiful.  And it's fun!  5.6 inches was the total snowfall officially.  Of course I had to stick a ruler in it to be sure.

After all, look at my poor rain gauge!

Everything looks so beautiful.  And this is coming from someone that hates the cold!

This was what I saw first thing as I was getting ready for barn chores.  You have to keep in mind how many trees we have on the property, a lot of the area was protected a bit from the snow.....but this is the front fence and gate.

Looking over at mom's house....first I saw her welcome bear...He needs to shake off.

And then I looked across the road to mom's house...it's there if you look closely.

Looking across our yard to the right is our browse pen and the road....

I love to take pictures....and I love to do graphics.  But I have to say, The only thing I did with this next picture is reduce the file size.  I could not have framed it any better (I took the picture through the gate which was covered with snow).  I took it while in the back doing chores.  The girls were waiting for me to call them to the milking barn.....and were watching me closely.  Notice there is not a speck of snow on their hooves. 

Next is the poor kiddos....the 1 month or less old babies that were totally freaked out by the white stuff.  They love me, but no way are they getting into that white stuff to come see me no matter how much I called!

And for your viewing pleasure....I got this really neat shot of the tree in our front yard...