after the snow

After yesterday's storm we woke up to snow, snow, snow!  I love snow.  I really do.  There's something exciting about waking up to this:

 

There was so much wind during the storm that it formed huge drifts.  We spent most of the day digging ourselves out and were so thankful that a neighbor plowed our drive for us just because he hated to think of us being snowed in.  Yet more proof of the goodness of the people around here.  Even so, it was a lot of work and we are tired.

Although it was cold (with a low windchill) the sky cleared and the day was very sunny, making working outside not so bad.  The really deep snow took a lot of effort, but it was very satisfying.

 

Yes, that's up to the middle of my thigh.  Some areas it's even deeper.  I really want to tromp around through the snow to take more pictures, but I might not be able to make it through some of those drifts.  Guess I really will need to learn how to snowshoe!

Here are a few more views:

 

 

Eloise is surrounded, but amazingly all of her hair, her face and her arms are still attached.  How that happened when the wind was so strong, I have no idea, not when the cushion on the bench on the front porch (which was tied to the bench, by the way) disappeared during the storm.  And she's in a spot where the snow really blew, too!

 

The birds have a quite a slope below their feeders, but seem not to mind the snow at all.

If you look carefully at this next one you can see the deep drift by the fence. 

 

 

So pretty.  Of course, if we had lost power during the storm or if our neighbor hadn't plowed our driveway or we had places we needed to be, the snow wouldn't be quite so fun, but those things didn't happen.  We worked hard and it was tiring, but those things do not diminish the beauty of it all.