...how many times I’ve written this this winter: it snowed. I’m not putting any more exclamation marks on that, as it is no longer surprising, and only minimally pleasing. Not to be a grump about it or anything, but snow just isn’t a big deal this year. (Well, it has been a very big deal in terms of what it did to our roads; but I think you know what I mean. Of course, old-timers out here keep saying that these are “usual” snow amounts, so maybe we just need to gear up our expectations.)
I have great hopes for a green spring, however! All this water soaking into the ground has to have an effect.
At any rate, yesterday had snow flurries off and on, with warm temperatures (high 30s) until the sun went down. Then we accumulated maybe another half inch. That is already beginning to melt away today, of course. And the rumor is for warm clear days this week, so our ability to get in and out of DCP should not be particularly affected and everything has a chance to dry out once and for all.
We actually did end up accumulating about 1.5 inches of snow last week on Monday, when I last wrote. Just so you know.
Birds: there was a female ladder–backed woodpecker in our front yard yesterday, down on the ground harvesting seed from last year’s golden crownbeards. I had to watch her for a while because it surprised me to see her on the ground. Very pretty bird.
And, the bird I’ve been calling a curve–billed thrasher may very well be a Crissal thrasher instead. H/T Beth Carleo; and I’ll be checking out “our” thrasher with a view to getting clear on its identification.