Thursday, March 31, 2011

Snow Melt


















This winter/spring snow melt has been unique in our experience and as I talk with others, they have also expressed the strangeness of the melt. In our experience, the melt happened fairly quickly and usually was accomplished with a rain storm and warm temperatures.

This spring we just finished eleven days of sunshine with highs in the 20 - 30s each day but overnight lows between 0 - 10 degrees. This meant that we melted during the day but refroze and solidified everything each night. Late last week I began noticing the strangeness of the snow. It was melting very differently. Some places or piles were melting more than others and then we began getting these beautiful lacy sculptures of ice on top of the snow piles. I really began looking at them Monday and Tuesday and took a few pictures to try and capture the look. I didn't do the snow and ice justice, but you can get a brief glimpse of the unique look that we saw all over.

I loved the mountain peak looks to the snow covering lawns. But my favorite was the lace ice that seemed to defy gravity and physics to hang at impossible angles and be connected by molecules of ice.

We saw snow flurries most of the day today and are expecting up to an inch of snow tonight. Tomorrow the weather is expected to become more rainish so I imagine the snow will melt quickly. I am ready. I'm hoping to plant my tomato and herb starts on Saturday so I'm beginning to think gardening and that means I want the snow to go and the ground to thaw. But I have thoroughly enjoyed the melt this spring.

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