January snow … really
Posted in Environment, Hearth and Home on January 18th, 2008
It snowed today. The picture is from our deck looking out towards the road that leads down to the paved road. I know it’s only about a 1/2 inch at its deepest and nothing compared to New England. My mother, who lives in Maine, says the snow is almost up to the porch rails and is banking the house on all sides. But it snowed here in Southern Maryland in January and we got half an inch.
Earlier in the winter we got about a quarter inch that didn’t last long enough to take pictures, so I had to go out and take these. It’s now rained and almost all the snow is gone — of course it’s darn cold out and the rain was more sleety, but even that’s stopped now too.
I’m not sure if I should be happy or sad that it snowed. Being originally from Maine, this is snow that wouldn’t even be noticed as an inconvenience — down here it’s a big deal. That is, it’s a big deal unless you live in Northwestern Maryland where they actually have snow storms. But here in Southern Maryland a half inch is a big deal and this is the most we’ve had all year and probably the last. What makes it so weird is just last week we had two days in the high 60’s to low 70’s for temperature — now it snowed.
Doesn’t take much to make me happy or intrigued and today it was snow.