The Winter Scene above

The wintery picture above is from quite a few years past. The tree is gone - it just gave up the ghost, and I felt sad, because it had the prettiest red and orange leaves in the fall. We have had an unusual year. Lots of snow before Thanksgiving, and not much since. There are patches on the ground, but very warm weather today is eroding that quite fast. The wind blows. That wintry wind that melted the snow so fast is the one that Dad called a chinook wind (or was it?) There will be snow sometime this winter, but at least we're having a reprieve from the thermometer dance around zero that went on for a couple of weeks.