It was 4F when I went out to feed horses this morning. It took me almost as long to get dressed in multiple layers as to do the barn work. We didn’t get as much snow as was forecast, only three to four inches. Since I heard the wind last night, I was surprised that there wasn’t more drifting.
When I fed horses this morning, there was only a scrap or two of clouds in the sky. As I headed for the grocery store, I could see the clouds starting to move in, and it is now snowing heavily and sticking to the ground. That sugar loaf shaped mountain is Mt Herman.
from Rion and the rest of us.
When we first moved here, I was tremendously impressed by the pink golden light on the hills west of us during morning sunrise. If you look closely, you can see where the ice fog that persisted all of yesterday ended about 100 feet above us.
I really had hoped not to be awake in time to take this, since we were watching the lunar eclipse last night. Astronomy Picture of the Day has this striking composite illustration of the winter solstice.
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