A few days ago, it was in the mid-50s with my chickens out foraging in patches of bare ground. There were even bits of green grass poking up, I heard robins calling and saw my first pair of Canada geese returning for the season. Today, I slogged through knee-deep snow drifts in howling 50 mph winds to get to the coop. As the saying goes, "If you don't like the weather in Minnesota, just wait 10 minutes." All the poultry are shut inside -- literally "cooped up" -- happily dry and safe. I even got 8 eggs. My two ganders were fighting -- not too seriously, but another sign that spring is coming.
Here's a picture of Buffy, one of our barn cats, coming out from under the evergreen in our front yard (He's a stray who wandered in, and except for really,
really cold weather, he prefers to be outside. He comes to the porch to eat and sleeps in the old garage.)
One good thing about the storm is that it will prolong the maple syrup season, since there won't be any fire danger for a while (I was getting a bit worried at how fast it was melting off last week, revealing all that long dead grass on the hillside.) I'm not up to going out to do any photography in this wind -- but here is one of my favorite photos from a previous storm in 2007. I call it, appropriately, "Dawn after the Storm":
Here's a picture of Buffy, one of our barn cats, coming out from under the evergreen in our front yard (He's a stray who wandered in, and except for really, really cold weather, he prefers to be outside. He comes to the porch to eat and sleeps in the old garage.) 
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