Christmas and (finally) Winter

We had a great Christmas this year with Briar, Gus and the kids.

One of our gifts from Briar and Gus was a wildlife camera. It's a waterproof camera with a motion sensor. You set it up outside and it takes stills or video of anything that walks by, day or night. We haven't caught any moose or bear yet but, after our first snow last night and this morning, I passed my hand in front of it to trigger this video of falling snow.

The previous record for latest measurable snowfall was 12/24 so this 12/29 storm set a new all time record (now I'm hearing that the record is January 3rd -they need to make up their minds). December isn't quite over yet but we are also on track to set the record for the warmest December on record. This storm only dropped 3 or 4 inches and it quickly devolved into sleet and freezing rain. It's raining right now so it won't be around long.

We went out for our usual morning walk and took most of the following pictures.

Front yard and driveway from the garage.

Back yard from the end of the driveway.

Looking toward town center from the street end of our driveway.

The front of the house from Coldbrook Rd.

Our house through the trees from Maple Ave. The colors of the siding and roof usually provides excellent camouflage but the white roof really made it pop.

Looking along Maple Ave. toward town center (taken from the same spot at previous picture).

Looking the other direction along Maple Ave. (taken from the same spot)

Looking down Barre Rd. toward Coldbrook Rd. from Maple Ave. We're at the corner of Barre and Coldbrook.

After passing through Oakham Center School from Barre Rd. to Coldbrook Rd., we took this picture up Coldbrook towards home. 

Approaching home from the Barre Rd. intersection.

This really wasn't enough of a storm to justify using the snow blower but I've been eager to try it out (just to make sure that I know what I'm doing). I had hoped to have a picture of me doing the snow blowing but that didn't happen. Here's the cleared driveway.

-JC-