We awoke to a dazzlingly beautiful day this morning. Here at Joe's Pond I'd guess we got 10 to 12 inches of snow. Oldest son, Bill, called last night after he got home (to the family cottage on W.Shore Rd.) and asked what the heck happened up here - he said St. Johnsbury area had three or four inches of snow, and he was amazed when he got here and found he had to shovel his way into the driveway. Jamie went down later and plowed the driveway, but then the snowplow came by and Bill still had to shovel.

We're getting a good taste of winter, but at least for today it's more like spring. However, by the first of the week the thermometers are going to show readings below zero - again. Just in time for town meeting on Tuesday. Perhaps it won't be as cold as predicted - and after all, it's March, so how much longer can winter be? a month? six weeks? two months?

Both Fred and I were out taking pictures early this morning. I'll post a few for you. As I write this, around noon, we are beginning to lose our beautiful day, but the temperature is still around 40 degress, just as predicted! I hope you enjoy the photos - click on them to increase the size.

That's the Randall's house just below us on W. Shore Road, and the house nestled in the trees on a distant hill is Michael Dornbrook's place on Harrington Hill Road. That's our back deck and the back door into the garage - I guess we won't be using that for a while. The pretty road with just a glimpse of a red building is Henretta Splain's home, near us.

I haven't mastered putting the pictures into the blog exactly where I want them. It's more of a hit-or-miss method, thus the sort of sloppy arrangement. One or two work fine, but when I do more than that, they tend to jump all over the place.

The men from FairPoint Communications were out before the storm, we think fixing one of their contact boxes where the man delivering the Times-Argus went over the bank earlier in the week (see earlier photo.)

The trees are near our house, in our back yard and on the driveway up to Jamie's.