The snow came early this year. Much too early. It snowed quite heavily a few weeks ago and we just got another dumping of snow last night and a few days ago.
November is very early for this sort of thing in Ontario Canada.
The leaves were were still on the trees during the first storm.
Do you know how much of a pain in the ass it is to rake up leaves when they are drenched from snow? Its a soggy mess, I can tell you. I have so many leaves from my trees that I can't just leave them on the yard. They don't decompose fully in one season and really screw up the gardens in the spring. They kind of shred the hostas and flowers when they try and break through. So they have to go.
The bright red of the leaves was a pretty cool contrast to the stark white snow though. It reminded me of the Disney Princess Snow White and the whole "skin as white as snow" and lips like the color of blood or whatever the line is.
The photo above was my yard a day or two before the snow came. I had the bright idea of waiting until all of the leaves fell before begining to rake them up. "Do it all in one go" I thought. Yeah, that idea backfired on me, needless to say.
Normally we barely even get any snow by Christmas it seems - most years. Two major snow storms this early on makes me wonder how bad of a winter we are going to get. A lot of people haven't even put on their snow tires yet. Today I saw my neighbor scrambling to do it.
So if you hadn't gathered already, I'm just going to be rambling on about snow, maybe the weather and seasons, and my garden, in this post. Its all very riveting stuff.
I took a bunch of photos of my garden at various times of the spring and summer, and of the cedar boxes I built to hold our geraniums.
I never got around to posting them so now feels like a good time to do so. The geraniums did very poorly this year and im not sure why.
The summer photos are another nice contrast to the snowy winter photos. Maybe this post is actually about contrasts???
Our deck sits above the canopy of our Japanese maple tree. Its a nice spot to sit when the weather is nice.
The deck faces the street and our neighbors homes, but the trees offer a lot of privacy.
Our neighbors can't really see us from the street as long as the leaves haven't fallen. Now people can see directly into our living room from the street if they stand on the far end.
I also took a bunch of photos of my in-laws magnolia tree in the very early spring of this year.
The trees don't stay in bloom for very long but for the few short weeks that the flowers are out they are super pretty.
The heat came fast and early last spring so the tree only stayed in bloom a little over a week. It was pretty impressive while it lasted though.
Anyway, I'm already over this winter and its barely even begun yet. I have a feeling its going to be a long one. I guess its time that I go shovel my driveway. See you later!
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Here in Estonia we have a black ground. Capital region has still not seen any snow and it's getting late lol. Cant wait for the scenery to change colors from black to white.
Beautiful shots, all of them!
I would love to have black ground right now lol. Its too early for snow, for me. Our winter typically goes until late March- early April so this is going to be a very long winter I think.
You still have other colors so yeah, no snow can do for you. The red trees and white snow gives a nice contrast too. Here we have no colors for almost 2 months no so its tiresome. Cold weather usually means good weather here.
In the winter is pretty much just grey and white other than any evergreen trees that are around. but in the other months its very colorful.
Your deck is quite awesome. That was a fair old dump of snow. We just get wet and cold and the weather toys with snowing but hasn't really done so the last few years.
Hopefully it's not a bad winter!
The deck was a win for us for sure. It makes up for the lack of back yard. I wanted to have space to do a vegetable garden in the back but the yard is too small with not enough sun. Can't get everything, life is compromises I suppose.
How low of temperatures do you get there in the winter typically?
-10°C is pretty standard for us but it can go as low as in the negative twenties when we get cold snaps.
Ooft that is way worse than us. At it's peak we get an average of -6 to like 2 or 3° but recently that has all been fecked and we don't often get negative temps during the day and often we have been getting between 4 and 9 degrees which is unseasonably mild!
Yeah that's sort of what I imagined for Scotland. Its pretty similar to what we experienced in France when we were there. Winters in Canada are quite cold and very long. Spring comes in April so there's a long wait ahead 😅
It is kionda April for us too although the alst few years we have had a surprising amount of sunny spring like days in March which has been nice as thats when I try to prep my decking for the year ahead
We often get some good weather in March as well, hot and sunny, but its a false spring. Without fail we will get one last dumping of snow right at the end of the month lol
We got hammered too. Probably about six to seven inches from what I could see. Oddly enough, the temps are up now and the ground isn't really frozen yet, so things are already starting to thaw out. Which is good since we have to head back to work tomorrow. Unfortunately, @mrsbozz was really hoping for a snow day...
Yeah its the same here. We got slushy rain today. A lot of the snow is melting now. The weather is all over the place already this year lol.
Should be a fun winter!
That's what I'm thinking
Wow, this is so beautiful it doesn’t even look real.
It’s just stunning.
Thanks! Yeah, typically all of the leaves fall long before it snows. Snow came early this year though
The harmony between the leaves and the white blanket is amazing. You've done a great job, congratulations.
The bright color against the white was neat to see. That doesn't typically happen here. Usually the leaves fall long before it snows.
Congratulations, magnificent photographs!
Thank you!