^^Sticky Snow In All Its Beauty!^^

HEYY Y'ALL
It's Winter... yeah haha,
...but this time it actually went pretty for us!!!
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Got the first snowstorm of the season,
Saturday, Dec. 3!!
This was a rare snowstorm in that it was very
sticky, and came with no wind!
On top of all that, the temps fell to 29
and held there for all of Sunday, so it didn't melt
either. Here's a bunch of shots I took about
2 pm Sunday afternoon of all the amazingness
that is created when sticky snow lands on
absolutely everything!!!
Yes we have an awesome artist God :)
Enjoy!
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~Fences and Winter Burning Bushes :)~

~Orchard in Winter :)~

~Snow-covered Birches~

~Winter in the Nursery~

~Snowy Boxelders~

~Overhead Snowy Silhouettes~

~Walkin' In a Winter Wonderland~

~Apricot Tree in Snow~

~Country Lane~

~Fences, Trees, and sticky snow :)~

~Snowcapped Weeds~

~Snowy Aspens~

~Snowy Aspen Silhouette~

~God's amazing natural snowy beauty~

~Snowy Winterberries~

~Winterberries~

~Winterberries in snow~

~Cranberry Bush- snowberries!~

~Bittersweet in the Snow~

~Bittersweet in the Snow 2~

~Boxelder Sillhouettes~

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Some Spring photos: May 2011

Wow!! It's been like forever since I've posted here...
no I didn't forget about it I've just been busy!!

Here's a couple select shots from May.
I'll get some June ones up too eventually, but
since it's almost JULY, I figured y'all wanna see
somethin' besides SNOW on my blog!

Just got about 780 pics at COUNTRYFEST too so
there'll be some of those posted here too!
Watch out :)
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Tulip macro 051511

Apple Blossoms 051511

A dandelion doglet lol! Tobias 051511

Dandelion Macro 051511

Pincherry Blossoms 051511

Jim Falls sunset 052211

Table rock at Jim Falls 052211

Backwater Serenity 052211

Cobban Evening 052211

Cobban Bridge Farm reflection 052211

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THE March storm of 2011

Well, well! Here it is March of 2011... and what March would be complete without a good old fashioned snowstorm! Yeah I know that last year kinda spoiled us all with 70's and all, but 2011 wasn't about to treat us that nice. Can't have yer cake and eat it too, as the old saying goes... Anyway, yeah, we had one heck of a storm here... about 3 inches of heavy sleet, along with some serious thunder and lightning... icing and storm winds managed to collapse the largest radio tower in the midwest, (2000 ft) knocking Wisconsin's most powerful radio station, WAXX 104.5 off the air, along with WEAU TV 13 Eau Claire. Nasty little slicker... but then it flipped around and thunder still rolling, dumped around 8-10 inches of snow on top of it all!
I plowed all day Wednesday, but Thursday was sunny once again :)
Here's a few from Thursday and Saturday. Enjoy!!

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^Done Plowing for...
the rest of the winter???^
Good question!!

^Caught in the Bushes^

^Winter's Teeth!^

^March snow oddities^

Colorado?? Haha not quite :)
^Try a Wisconsin March! ^

^Icicle Pines!!^

^Nestled in the Snow- Pine Candles^

^Standing at Attention^

^Snow-Striped Red Pines^

^Pine Rows in Snow^

^Snowy scene^

^Icicle Pines... 2^

^Storybook Winter Spruce^
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^Spiky ice needles!^

^Umm, yeah really!!^

^Need a piercing??^

^Mammoth Icicle- top portion^ (it's about 3 ft long)

^Mammoth Icicle... bottom drip :)^

^More Ice Pine Needles^

And that concludes the wacky March weather for 2011...
haha I wish!
Icicles and sun and snow and robins...
Welcome to Wisconsin!
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