Winter's Not Quite Done.....

In case you hadn't heard, we are in the middle of a sizable winter storm. I guess we escaped so many this year that our number was up. I only took a few pictures from the warmth of my house, but what was lawn yesterday is winter wonderland now. It's about noon and the temps stayed cool so we didn't get the heavy wet stuff that was predicted. Lucky for us as that's what brings the tree branches down and causes the power outages. I filled the bath tub and made sure we had enough candles available last night, in the hopes that we WOULDN'T loose power. And so far so good. But it's still snowing and doesn't look like it's going to let up anytime soon. The winds were howling last night night and we even had thunder and lightening. And to think that just Saturday we had a nice walk down the road, that was snow and ice free and even dry! Winter can be such a tease....

Visitors out my kitchen window....

We've been watching 2 of these Pileated Woodpeckers for most of the winter, right outside the kitchen window. Joel sticks suet in the crack of the post every morning and by afternoon it's all gone. The Pileateds even helped out by excavating the crack to make it bigger. They're an amazing bird. Jean Kilbane called last Friday to let me know that she had spotted 3 wolves walking along the shoreline towards the east end of the lake. Unfortunately, I was gone or I would have been scouting the area with my camera. The lake is like glass right now, with all the melting and freezing going on. But it feels like Spring might be in the air, I don't want to say that too loudly in case I might jinx things! Have you seen anything interesting lately?