All is calm, all is bright

Very, VERY bright, with the sun shining on the fresh, new snow! Only a faint breeze. Cold, though... 4°F below zero when I got up. Pretty to look at, at least, especially against the lovely blue sky!

Roads are open, school started on time. It's lookin' like Christmas! Yikes! Only 2 weeks till Christmas Eve... I'd better get busy!!!

Evergreen beauty

I like the fresh new growth on the evergreen trees in the spring. Click on this collage to enjoy the greenness more.

Those protective little 'things' on the new buds are kinda cool.... till they get stuck all over me when I'm mowing around them. And boy, are they sticky... especially on skin!

We only had one evergreen tree that had much damage due to the snow on it last winter, which was kinda surprising considering the weight of those huge drifts. It now is sorta missing its middle, as those branches are hanging much lower.

They're still alive, but very damaged.

I wonder what will happen with them.

I love green!

Especially the new green of spring!

And I love blue!

And lilac (victorian?), too!

Yellow? Not so much.

Though we seem to have plenty of it. A big portion of our lawn looked like this yesterday.

I mowed it off. But they're starting to pop right back up. Actually, the yellow part isn't so bad. It's the seed puffballs that really get ugly. And fly into your eyes when you're mowing. If dandelions start growing out of my eyeballs, I'll take a photo and post it here.