TODAY IT SNOWED IN NEW ENGLAND...AND SNOWED...AND SNOWED

Normally, a guest here would receive a warm welcome.  Not  today unless the guest was willing to help shovel snow.  For a few years we have escaped the large amounts of white, fluffy downfall we experienced today of the stuff that looks better on Christmas cards than it does when you have to shovel it against the tide (the tide being the snowplows hired by the city who wait until you have brought the berm they last left down; they gloat as they push more back up to make a new two foot berm for you to have a go at. with your puny shovel)

The snow was wet and heavy. 
            To the right are two lovely Holly bushes just loaded with red berries.  In the summer they looked  like this on the left.

People unused to snow should stay away from Quebec, Canada.  There they get real snow, piled so high on the side of the road one feels as though their drive is in a white tunnel.

.The only reason that some blue shows on the side of my Subaru is that much of the driveway has been shoveled.  Since our governor declared a state of emergency except for doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, maintenance and security people, etc, I had nowhere to go and will let the next-day sun help me out here a bit.

One might expect to see the light, clean, fluffy snow for a bit.  Not so.  By the time the plow trucks have moved on, the berms are already covered with exhaust soot. The best way to view the storm is from a warm living room...I figured that out many years ago and is a lesson I shan't forget.  Perhaps I should consider myself lucky.  For a bit there were 100,000 customers without power and I was not among them.  It was better than winning on the lottery tickets I don't buy!  

Back yard view

You can see why I prefer the picture window.    The view of trash cans in the back yard  just wouldn't look good as a Greeting Card.   This will have to melt itself, in time, as they don't intend to be part of an emergency trip out of the yard.

If you are somewhere with better weather, enjoy it while you can.    As Mark Twain said about New England weather,"If you don't like New England weather, wait a minute...."  I'm told he never actually said that but he should have.,