This first picture is basically the view from our bedroom windows. It looks like a fairy land right now and when the leaves are out, only a few months from now which is completely hard to imagine, it is layers and shades of green. We may add some flowering bushes along the edges of the forest. Anything to get rid of lawn.
A fruit tree surrounded by evergreens
Down the hill from the house and towards the south-west, the forest of evergreens is all heavily coated with frost now. Some of the pine trees are so thickly covered with frost they look like they have been dipped in cottonballs.
Mixture of pines and fir trees
The hills all look smooth and shiny white where the sun is finally started to peek through the fog. By the time the sun set today, all clouds are gone and the stars will sparkle on the landscape.
Behind that cloud bank is a mountain and ski resort
The aspen grove around the house really looks substantial now that the fog has lifted a bit. With all the frost on the branches, and in fog, they disappear.
Satellite dishes connecting us with the rest of the world
The satellite dishes look substantial in a white and fuzzy world. I keep shoveling a path to them, and it snows again. The path is getting very narrow.
After a tough day of mischief making
Mishkin doesn’t care if there is fog outside, or if the trees are frosty, or if an owl is hunting in the yard. He likes his blankie on the couch, and has been snoozing there for several hours already this afternoon.