A Little Snow
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Last week we had a little snow…a few inches one afternoon and evening…enough to delay the schools opening the next morning. I took a picture as it was coming down in the afternoon before the day got too dark.
The next morning, I started before sunrise then took several pictures catching the changes in light as the sun came up and from behind the morning clouds.
The sycamore has a few leaves that caught the snow…but there were also branches acting like skewers for ribbons of snow on the tree.
The evergreens always hold a lot of snow. This time it wasn’t enough to break any limbs.
The red maple twigs already look a little red against the snow they hold.
The tulip poplar seed pods act as little cups for the snow…the branches of the tree like a candelabra. The snow was wet enough to stick to almost all the branches.
The big surprise of the morning was a hawk. When it first flew into the sycamore while I was getting my breakfast, I thought it was a mourning dove, but then decided it was a little larger…and then it turned its head and I knew it wasn’t a dove. The pictures were taken through a window with a screen but the shape of the tail is distinctive enough to indicate that it was probably a Cooper’s Hawk (rather than a sharp-shinned). No wonder there weren’t any birds around our feeder at the time!
The snow melted slowly over the course of the day. I was glad I didn’t have anything I needed to do away from home.
