The last 2 days have brought us lots of snow. Now that is not unusual for a lot of you, but it is here in the Pacific Northwest... and especially where we live in Sequim on the Olympic Peninsula.
Sequim is known as the Blue Hole, as most storms are split by the Olympic Mountains of Olympic National Park just to the south of us...
but this one didn't we got 2 feet!
We used to live at an altitude of 5,000 feet at a mountain lake in a National Forst and regularly got 200-350 inches of snow a year... which is actually why we finally moved down to sea level.
With my husband's health deteriorating, being isolated with that much snow was not good for us...
With my husband's health deteriorating, being isolated with that much snow was not good for us...
One of our local favorite farm-to-table restaurant Nourish posted this on Facebook this morning of the farmhouse adjacent to the restaurant....
A corner of the yard... our cherub topped fountain in the corner is under a large Maple tree,,, and has 18 inches of snow while being UNDER the tree, so we got a LOT!
So... my response...
In a shovel break... I grabbed my Brambly Hedge Winter teacup, and filled it with snow in a drift...
And the only plant I can get to at the moment... some Heather...
So... hoping you have a warm and wonderful rest of your weekend. We are forcast for a foot possible before Tuesday night...it is already the most snow since 1949 here...
Yikes! All that snow must have paralyzed your town, if they're not used to it! Stay safe.
ReplyDeleteThat's a lot for any storm, but especially when you don't usually get that kind of snow! I can't imagine living where you used to and getting THAT much snow every year!
ReplyDeleteI'm in the Midwest and I'm sick of shoveling. It's been a wicked winter....snow, rain turning to ice (I hate the ice more than snow, no traction) and then the horrible Vortex where we had to trickle water out of our taps. If an area is not prepared with salt for the roads it can be horrible. I follow another blogger who dealt with the monsoon and now has to deal with black mold growing all over the house inside and out. I feel really bad for her. So while I'm not thrilled with dealing with with our winter here, I feel blessed that our cities are prepared and I don't have to deal with mold which can be deadly. My back will recover from all the shoveling I've done. There's always someone going through worse and there's always something to be thankful for. I hope your snow melts quickly and the forecast is wrong. Stay safe and warm.
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