Ready for Spring

I am glad to see piles of snow vanishing into puddles of water, hear the birds singing in the trees and flying about in search of food which is much easier for them to find now. I am also seeing the green sprouts of the crocus sticking out of the ground getting ready to burst into flowers. I personally have seen enough of the cold, dry air but I am sure that the ski resorts have not been happy due to the lack of substantial snowfall. After all you do need snow if you want to go skiing during the winter. And water skiing during winter in North America is not a fun thing.

Why are we Getting Snow Now?

Today we received about 1 inch of snow on everything over the top of 1/2 an inch of rain that turned into ice. I know this may not seem like very much but in New Hampshire it is a law that your car must be completely cleared of snow and ice, if snow flying off of your car you will be held responsible for the accident.To the best of my understanding this means even the top of the vehicle, be it car, minivan or truck no matter how high it is and how short you are, get my hint. This to me is a crazy law due to the fact that I had until April of 2011, I had lived in the state of Illinois which gets plenty of snow and freezing rain and has no such law. Yes you have to clear your car but not %100 before you can drive it, so today before I made my 10 minute drive to the post office and back I spent 20 minutes cleaning off the car thus freezing my fingers in spite of my gloves. In my 30 plus years of driving, I have yet to see an accident caused by snow flying off one car onto another thus blocking their vision of the road.

There's no time like snow time!

Hello again! It's a beautiful day for a nice 2 inch snowfall in Southern New Hampshire. I tried to get pictures of Mount Monadnock which is 10 miles east of us, but there is not enough sunshine so I wind up with white and no demarcation line on the mountain of where the treeline ends. Oh well you can't have your cake and eat it too. I am very happy that this was not a repeat of the 30 inch snowfall we had on October 29, 2011. That was a bad Halloween trick by Mother Nature. This storm has put an end to the snowless winter we have had so far.