Greetings and salutations, everyone; yes, once again it is I, Mani the purebred border collie, filling in for the guy I live with, and here today to tell you about a big difference here. You may remember me from such posts as “A Slight Change”, among so many, many others.
Here I am in a characteristic pose.
You can see what happened last night.
I can’t begin to tell you what a huge relief this is for us. It’s been so, so dry.
Before I got to this willow I checked out some coyote tracks; they ran through the field last night.
I think this is beyond totally excellent.
Day before yesterday, the garden looked like this. Super dry, even with a little snow on the ground.
The cyclamen were safely tucked in, with a covering of pine needles. The pine needles were just to keep the soil from freezing in case it didn’t snow like was forecast.
This isn’t all the cyclamen, by any means, but now all of them are under a blanket of snow.
If the soil freezes, then the cyclamen won’t be able to pull water from their tuber’s roots, and the leaves can collapse.
The soil freezing business really only started in the last several years, when it got cold before it snowed. It would usually snow first, and the soil wouldn’t freeze.
It looked like this last last night.
That spotlight is extremely annoying. The guy I live with says that “code” requires lights like that to have hoods on them so the light points downward, but a lot of people ignore that stuff.
This was how it looked this morning. You can see I went out briefly, just to make sure this was real. It was.
And that’s all I have for today. It snowed.
Until next time, then.
the miserable gardener 
Oh my; it got white!
Yep. All of a sudden.
Hallelujah and pass the cornbread! Finally!
Yes, finally. The guy I live with is super-relieved.
White manna…finally. Today with the clear blue sky, it’s particularly beautiful (but then the first snowfall always is-but I can’t count that skiff of snow of being worthy of mattering).
Yes, finally. We got 6-7 inches of snow.
The guy I live with likes Kody the WX Guy’s posts on Facebook (he also has a website); his forecasts seem more accurate and he’s explained why weather along the Front Range is so difficult to predict.
The snow makes for beautiful scenes and photographs and, as you say, has the benefit of insulation something which wouldn’t come to mind here in Ireland as we almost always have very wet snow which quickly turns to slush and is very messy. There is a flight of steps outside the window here where I am sitting and there is gentle cascade of water coming down over them. A pond above is full to overflowing. It is wet!
The guy I live with says those weather conditions are hard to relate to, as no doubt ours are to you.
Most of the snow will be gone here within a week, or even less.
Quite often, here, the snow will be gone and the days will turn warm, and then it will snow again.