Category: A day in the life of a pond

As you can see, we got some snow. The tops of the deck lights give the clearest picture of how much. Not bad for a Michigan winter. Though I’m not a native Michigander and mostly think of snow and cold on a Virginia scale, I find that I really can look at 4-6 inches of the white stuff and shrug. No big deal. This much snow would have paralyzed the Washington, DC, area. Michigan dusts off the roads and gets on with its business.

For days, we’ve had a winter storm watch, followed by a winter storm warning. It’s Michigan, it’s February, but you’d think it had never snowed within a hundred miles of here from the hype. I avoided the frenzy of bread-milk-toilet paper buying yesterday, but did go out for my regular weekly grocery restock. The cats and I are settled in for the duration, with the fireplace to counteract the gray skies outside. I have my dark chocolate and hazelnut-flavored coffee, a large stack of books, and the world at my internet fingertips. It’s all good.

The photo above is the baseline as of 9:30 this morning when it began to snow. It was warm – in the 40s – yesterday, so most of the accumulated snow of January had melted away by last night.