A couple of weeks ago after a light snow fall I took a walk around my garden. The dusting of snow was pretty and sparkly and made an otherwise rather dull winter garden look a little more special.
On Saturday, we awoke to a world turned white. About five inches of snow had fallen and the garden was postcard pretty.
As the day wore on, the snow began to melt a little, creating tiny, sparkly icicles on the plants.
This was just the calm before the storm, and Monday night saw the start of Blizzard 2015: Juno! I am currently in the process of clearing the snow, but this was the sight that greeted us on Tuesday morning.
By the end of the day we had a good two feet of snow and my ‘gardening’ priority was to clear an escape route from the house. We can only open the front door, the rest are blocked by snow, so clearing the steps was necessary!
Today we have been clearing more paths, wading in the snow, playing with sledges, losing snow boots in snow drifts and enjoying the sunshine in our winter wonderland.
As winter takes hold in our garden, I am joining in again with Annie over at Mammasaurus for the wonderful How does your garden grow?.
Brr and yuck to snow for the inconvenience, but it does look spectacular. Good job on the steps.
It does look beautiful, but all the shovelling is hard work!
Beautiful pictures. We are the same today x
Thanks Susan, it is very pretty, and the kids are loving it :)
Brrr! I feel FREEZING looking at these photos!
No snow where I am yet but I believe further north there’s some. This takes me back to when you had a load of snow before. The big rocks in your garden look awesome sprinkled with snow – and those icilces look evil – beware!
I do hope you aren’t totally snowed in sausage – and thanks for joining in again x
I’ve started knocking the icicles down, they really do look lethal! It took awhile, but we are now able to leave the house safely :)
brrr! goodness, I hope you’re not too snowed in! I don’t think it’s ever snowed that much here :) love the photo of the icicle! x
It took a while to dig us out, and who knows when I’ll be able to open the back doors again… But for now we can escape!
Brrr! But what a blue sky! I’ll admit it looks pretty, but I’m still not a white stuff fan #hdygg
I love it! Looks gorgeous, glad you’re all okay and enjoy the snow from Juno.
Those icicles look amazing
Love how you showed the transition over the week from the sprinkling to the full blown snow drifts. After three blizzards the last couple of years I know the shovelling out is a nightmare but it also becomes a winter wonderland for the kids. Good idea getting rid of the wicked icicles.
Yeah, the icicles looked pretty lethal! The kids are loving the snow, but the shovelling and driving and parking etc etc is hard work :)
I’m very jealous of your snow. It looks beautiful and your ice photographs are so pretty.
Thank you Kim, it is beautiful x
Now that is ‘proper’ snow. I love the drippy-looking icicles, I wouldn’t fancy walking under them though! Hope it doesn’t make day-to-day life tricky for too much longer, it does look amazing though.
Thank you, it’s definitely proper snow :)
Wow, you really have had a fair amount of snow haven’t you?! I don’t envy your job clearing those steps I have to say. But it looks amazing. I hope it doesn’t hang around too much and make the everyday hard work.
Thanks Iona, I’ll be glad to see the back of it to be honest, but it does look very pretty :)
Oh Sara this is so beautiful! Do hope you can get out and about still.. Does everyone make a fuss like we would here or are they just used to it?!
Thank you Sarah. We are definitely out and about, everyone really does just get on with things here!
It all looks so very pretty, though I can imagine that wears thin after a while! Your garden holds so much promise, looking forward to seeing it come to life this year x
Yes, I think I’ll be well and truly done with it soon… but we have more snow forecast!
THAT is an impressive amount of snow. We have a small covering today but it was enough with the ice underneath to make our roads very slippery! I must get out to take some photos.
Happy snow clearing – I do not envy you that at all.