poplar road

Look at what we woke up to this morning! My sister and nieces left yesterday morning after a great visit that we spent mostly outdoors in the sunshine. Most days it was 18 degrees in the shade in the afternoon. But on Friday morning, snowflakes were falling, just a little, and Elisa's drive home via the Fraser Canyon was harrowing, with snow falling the entire trip (until she got to the coastal side's torrential downpours, which were worse, apparently). Here it remained chilly and windy all day, and then around 6 as I headed to the post office, the flakes turned as large as quarters and by the time I got home it was accumulating. By bedtime it was two inches thick. We never thought we'd wake up to find it still snowing! I got up at 6:30, shocked, and tried to post a photo, but of course in the heavy snowfall my satellite internet was down. It's thinning out now, but there's a good 4 inches on the ground (except on the road and the gravel driveway) and no yard work in our futures this afternoon, I expect. Last I checked, the forecast was for "flurries" and a high of 8 degrees, but we're in a snowier pocket that's sometimes 2 degrees cooler than the airport 75k away, so who knows. Mother Nature is giving us the day off, I guess. Might as well rest - both of us are feeling like the flu is coming on - not surprising since both nieces seemed to have a touch of it. But I was really hoping to spend the day in my garden, it was so lovely to be outside so much this week. I hope this is the last of the cold weather. I've already got daffodils, forsythia, bergenia and dwarf irises in bloom and pruned my black currants and roses, ready for spring!