Here is a picture of our house and front garden, while the snow was still falling.
| We get snow in April almost every year, but it rarely falls after the middle of the month, and
almost always falls as a small amount that melts rapidly. This year (2005) was an exception to this rule.
On April 24, a significant snow fall occurred. Many Spring events had already taken place, notably including the
blooming of Magnolias and Forsythia, and the budding and even the development of spring leaves on some of
our trees.
Here is a picture of our house and front garden, while the snow was still falling. | |
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This is the view from inside the house. A sparrow didn't like this weather any better than we did, and took refuge under the eaves, sitting on a rose cane among the yew branches right outside our front window. | |
| In front of those yew bushes, our peonies had sprouted more than a week earlier, and had reached about a foot in height, but with the snow they are all bent over. | |
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The leaves had come out on the apple trees, and the flower buds had expanded. Thankfully, the buds had not opened yet. They probably would have opened shortly were it not for this snow. We'll have to see if they are delayed or otherwise affected. This picture is zoomed way in, and shows just some of the leaves from one of the trees. | |
| We have a small magnolia bush in back, but our neighbor across the street has a magnificent full-sized magnolia tree that was covered in pink blossoms before the snow began to fall. In this picture you can still see some of the pink under the snow. | |
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On the east side of our house, facing Eberwhite woods, we have two forsythia bushes which were all yellow. Here is what they look like when the yellow is covered with snow. | |
With this snowfall, we have probably exceeded 80 inches of snow for the winter season. The average for this area is 40 inches per year, and the previous record was 75 inches.