Woke up this morning to the sound of rain and thought maybe we had dodged the bullet again...but no: shortly after dawn it began to snow big sloppy flakes on a slack breeze. We got about an inch of rain overnight, but still it stuck instantly -- the moisture on leaves and steps and all the stuff left out in the yard till some other time was almost at freezing anyway -- and we've gotten a quick half inch already.
Here are Before and After pictures, taken from the southeast corner of the garden.
Ran out to pick some greens for a salad. Made a decision last night not to cover them (or the other crops) thinking that it was better to let the snow settle down amongst them rather than be stopped by a cover and form an icy, crushing mass. We'll see tomorrow if I was right, as it is forecast to be a sunny day in the 40's and 50's. That will likely melt most of this mess off. Just last weekend it was in the 60's and the weekend before that in the 70's. Oh, well....
This reminds me precisely of the storm of October 1988, which collapsed our greenhouse and provided the final push for us to get out of the farmstand business and expand our seed catalog...
