As February rears its head, the question on the minds of many around here is: Where's the snow? I know. I know. It's only February, and this month and March are still prime winter months up here but... It has been a strange winter so far. Halloween snow! Thanksgiving snow! Christmas snow! But really not much else. Snowmobile distributorships are in a panic. Think Snow! The annual ice fishing derby, on nearby Sebago Lake scheduled for two weeks away, has been cancelled, because of unsafe ice conditions. Is something really afoot around these parts? I'm not going there quite yet. I know one thing, I don't plan to pack away my snow shovel right yet. I've lived in this state just about my whole life, and I so know a bit about Maine winters. The week ahead? Pretty mild with no white stuff in sight. I can live with that.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Snow Fence
As February rears its head, the question on the minds of many around here is: Where's the snow? I know. I know. It's only February, and this month and March are still prime winter months up here but... It has been a strange winter so far. Halloween snow! Thanksgiving snow! Christmas snow! But really not much else. Snowmobile distributorships are in a panic. Think Snow! The annual ice fishing derby, on nearby Sebago Lake scheduled for two weeks away, has been cancelled, because of unsafe ice conditions. Is something really afoot around these parts? I'm not going there quite yet. I know one thing, I don't plan to pack away my snow shovel right yet. I've lived in this state just about my whole life, and I so know a bit about Maine winters. The week ahead? Pretty mild with no white stuff in sight. I can live with that.
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From the news, seems some locations are minus 20-30 this year !!!!
ReplyDeletewhatever's afoot, keep your feet off thin ice, okay, bird?
ReplyDeleteStrange winter. Some hiking friends of mine are reporting ticks. In January and February! Even down here that is unheard of.
ReplyDeleteWe have some snow now so it both feels and looks like winter. Nice scene with the tree.
ReplyDeleteYou've picked a gorgeous scene to show us this morning. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteMakes you fear for March, doesn't it? Like it all might come barreling in at breakneck speed . . .
ReplyDeleteUnless the snow is needed for spring moisture, I'd say that you folks have been pretty lucky this year, as so many other places have been.
ReplyDeleteGlad that you have been spared thus far, but I wouldn't order any of those Florida orange trees for planting just yet!
ReplyDeleteBises,
Genie
that's a beautiful photo. (should be linked in to Friday's Fences, you know!) :)
ReplyDeletei'm thinking march will give this country a good winter wallop, yet!
A very lovely shot. I think the future holds some very strange and extreme climate changes...
ReplyDeleteI like to follow the line of the fence, and to get lost into your white skyline.
ReplyDeleteWhat we call "snow" around here would make you smile...
At least you got a nice one out of what has come down. We have had the same kind of winter, but today we got all of 5 cm of snow.
ReplyDeletePretty shot Birdman! No snow here either!
ReplyDeleteI have been asking the same question. Nice to see a bit of the "white majesty" here.
ReplyDeleteGreat shot. It has been an odd winter. We had two days around 70 this week. That's about 15 degrees above the normal high here. But, hey, we'll take it.
ReplyDeleteDarryl and Ruth :)
That is a beautiful tree.
ReplyDeleteThis is a beautiful winter wonderland, even if it is not this year's beautiful winter wonderland.
ReplyDeleteThis made me think of Robert Frost's Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening but there's too much grass poking through. No snow in Maine. What is the world coming to?
ReplyDeleteAn absolutely beautiful winter scene. Love that the snow looks almost blue.
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