Remember this picture from my blog (Feb 19)?
Well here's what it looked like yesterday.
The daffodils were in full bloom when they were surprised by a cold blanket of snow. The temperature dropped from 8 degrees C. on Tuesday to -5 degrees yesterday. Around 9:30 in the morning I was watching about 30 robins looking for worms in the field below the office windows when the snow started. It snowed all day - not just a light dusting but a full out blizzard, the wind blowing the snow horizontal so that we could hardly see the house from the office windows. 
By 11:00 everything was white and the robins had gone - looking for refuge from the storm, I'm sure. Even my crocs and the little stone birds on the porch got their dusting.
Today was all sunshine - the white fields blinding us. As you can see, the mountains - especially Mt. Cheam - were spectacular in their bridal clothes.
I have to admit, like most of the Fraser Valley, we had already welcomed Spring who has proved somewhat fickle. I hear she's on her way back but we will have evidence of Old Man Winter's whirlwind visit around
for a little while yet.
Can you see the eagles in the tall tree on the left? They alert us to their presence with their piercing cries. Majestic and mighty, they survey the fields from their lofty perch.
1 comment:
You have some lovely snow pictures. You know, those robins must have flown over here - about 11 a.m. we had a dozen or so, pecking away under the cedar trees on the driveway and lawn, where the snow was just dust compared to in the open. I've never seen so many robins at a time, and they looked fat! Dairymary
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