Winterlude ...

 

A break in the storm systems and a few moments of sunshine.  We've had so much wind thought that it still felt like it was snowing.

This is our pond, although it took a few minutes for me to identify the photo under all that snow.

Hard to tell this is a large pine tree!  

We've had a couple of days of mild weather though, so we've had some melting and the snow has compacted a bit.  This means the gigantic snow bank that the snowplow made, is no longer blocking the view of oncoming traffic, which is nice.  After a couple of fairly mild winters with minimal snow, this winter has been a bit of a surprise.   The longer days are nice though.  Sunset isn't until about 6:30 pm,  and I don't have to put my car lights on when I leave the house at 7:45 am, so yay for that!   It gives hope that spring is on its way.  I do believe though that the local prognosticating rodent, Willie, a groundhog from the Bruce Peninsula, is laughing away in his burrow, with his call for an early spring.  We're still waiting for suitable weather changes to tap our maple trees.