It's Snow Time!

This morning I got up early, awakened by the silence of the falling snow.  Normally, I would pull the covers over my head and return to my dreams, but I've got a brand new camera and have lately been heard to lament the lack of interesting things to photograph, so off I went into the white wilderness to capture some scenes and drag them back to the blog.

Actually, before I went out, I took this picture of the garage through a window in the sunroom.

See the row of windows along the left side of the house?  That's what we refer to as the sunroom.  Not too sunny today, though the colour of our house adds a pleasantly warm, sunshiney glow, don't you think?  It used to be painted white but we found it was too difficult to find our way home in the winter.

I wanted to get out there first thing in the morning while the tree limbs were still outlined in snow, before the wind blew it off, or it fell from its own weight.  I love the scribbled lines the branches make against the blank canvas of the colourless sky.

The lilac bush is wearing white blossoms now instead of its normal...um...lilac hued blooms.

The two windows at the top of the house that look like its eyes are in my studio.

If you were to look out one of those windows, you'd be looking down onto this scene.   See that rooftop peeking out from behind the tree on the left of the picture?  That's our abandonned house.  Abandonned except for the raccoons that live there, though it's been awhile since I've seen any of them. 

Maybe they went to Paris to see the Monet exhibit.

Outside the back door, under a tree next to the driveway,  is a twig bench that my neighbour made for us several years ago.  I think it needs to be taken in for repairs, but the cat likes to use it as a scratching post, or as a perch in the summer to survey the territory and keep an eye out for raccoons.  Or skunks.

And this is how deep the snow was at 9:00 this morning--

Right up to my knees! 

It's snow time, babies!

Can you dig it?