Traffic has been a little slow here in north Evergreen.

It’s just another classic spring storm in the Rockies. Over two feet here and snowing like crazy!

As a boy growing up in Colorado, I like most kids, loved snow days. It meant no school. A chance to be with your buddies usually tobogganing, playing a crude game of pick up hockey on the irrigation ditch or building snow forts.

Back then most of our snow days were in January or February. In more recent years it’s the heavy spring storms, mustered up by frigid Canadian air colliding in the southeast corner of the state with thick moist air from the Gulf of Mexico, that generally paralyzes the front range. The best part of having a snow day now as an adult is savoring the beauty and  peacefulness of  mother nature’s weird sense of humor.

This morning I a got a laugh out of the newspaper gardening supplement which featured a beautiful blossoming apple tree on the cover of  as the snowflakes continued to pile up outside.

Some folks in the community lost their power early from the weight of the snow dropping power lines. Most of  everyone up here expect it and are prepared. So far other than  a few surges things are still up and running. We have water in containers at the ready. My Coleman camp stove is in standby mode and the ax should be able to handle my wood supply.

Tomorrow may be a snowshoe day but this afternoon I couldn’t resist capturing some of the graphic beauty.

Two feet and counting!

No worries. The feeders are full.

This aspen is kind of like a restaurant lobby. The Pine Siskins are waiting to be seated at one of the feeders.

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