Well, Old Man Winter has finally arrived after a record dry December.
Half an inch was predicted here in Everett, and we’ve got almost two already. It’s a heavy snow, as the temperature is hovering right around freezing. In our backyard, the main bamboo stalk (almost twenty feet tall now) was bent all the way to the ground under the snow load, so I shook it loose of the accumulation, and did the same for all the rest of the plants. You could almost hear a collective sigh of relief. Combined with shoveling the driveway, it feels a little like being back East.
A couple of years back, we had snow like this, and some of our plants did not like it one bit. A couple barely survived, and another one or two are stunted. So I’ve covered the most fragile ones with plastic drop cloths. We’ll see if that helps at all.
Jeff takes glee in reminding me that I told him (before he moved here) that, “it never snows here.” Or words to that effect. Of course, I like to blame him – he must have brought the foul weather from Buffalo!
Update
Jeff sent me this image from further north, where the skies are already clearing:
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