Friday, October 22, 2010

What I woke up to

Three or four inches of snow!! We were told to expect some wet snow but this is crazy. We had to shovel and the plows came around!

This is a lilac bush. There was a fair number of broken trees around and you can see why.

And here is a before and after of the corner garden. In the first shot you wouldn't even recognize the standard hydrangea. Two hours later it has emerged from it's snow cocoon. In both shots the spireas and potentillas are flattened by the snow's weight.

Here is a shot of my Bridalwreath spireas that are taller than I am. The branches are just beginning to free themselves. They are coming up one at a time like little catapults.
Not only were we shocked by the snow, there was a town wide power outage from about 7 until 8. Just as everybody was trying to get out the door! There wasn't much I could do in the garden so I didn't meander into work until 10:30. It was actually warm and I enjoyed working in the snow.

What about you? Did you get snow?

4 comments:

Cherylinn said...

We got a dusting.....I'm ready for more.

Fiddling Granny said...

That's just insane. None in Sunny Haliburton!

It's way to soon for the "Winter Wonderland" crap.

SusanE said...

I couldn't believe it when I saw it on the news.

Laura said...

Today - only 3 days later - the temperature hit 20 degrees!