Snow Day

 The afternoon on the day before yesterday... it started to snow... just like the weatherman predicted.

I stepped out the door with a camera... and there was the problem animal thinking that I wasn't going to be noticing it being back...

Bambi is hiding.

Yesterday morning snow coverage...

magnolia tree

Driveway...

Garden fence...

I'm grateful that I don't have to deal with snow much... seems like 3 years since the last snow day... Also happy that this stuff melts quickly... 

January is winter for us... February is Spring..... can't come soon enough for me...

2 inches of snow

A 2 inch snowfall closed down the state... I feel bad for those folk stuck in gridlock traffic in Atlanta for 24 hours or so... I always did hate that Atlanta traffic...

* This pic is from first thing this morning (Jan 29,2014). They've been sitting there all night. Some of the motorists have been out there in their cars for 16 hours.*

The schools didn't bother to open around here... not sure what they were thinking in Atlanta... The Governor is blaming the metrologists... but... He's going to have to take some responsibility... eventually...

 Personally, I listened to the weather report... and paid attention to their warnings to stay home...

I posted a similar picture of my house back on January 2011

A bit closer...

A bird in the bush...

elephant's foot covered in snow. (Elephantopus sp.).
The next day... the birds came to gather seed.

A bird eating elephant's foot seed.
I got a lot of pics of birds in the elephant patch... but the birds are difficult to distinguish from the stems...
I posted flowers from the elephant's patch back in August.

Bluestem covered in snow.

Hibiscus aculeatus

Snow covered hellebores

Bloom peaking out from snow cover... the next day.

sumac berries

echinacea

An early look out at the street.

My rain gage is about full... Not sure if you can measure snowfall that way...

Towhee in brush-pile.