Shedding Snow

Our huge snow pack was beginning to rapidly thaw this week. Most of the driveway, except the top was clear ---but then came a spring storm. Eight more inches…speaking of which we are inching our way to the all-time record of number of inches of snow since records have been kept. Perversely we are still all hoping to break the record, even though we don’t want more snow. Friday the wetlands and forest were draped in a moist, fluffy snow. Saturday snow plummeted from branches in the chilly wind plopping on as we walked on snow shoes around the brook with friends. Today the branches shed the rest of their moisture and the sun soften the snow further making stepped without snow shoes a little treacherous.