Well, we're back in winter mode, for sure. We got 3 inches of nice wet, heavy snow last night. All the bare ground that was, isn't today. I took this picture from my office window just now - you can see that the trees at higher level where there is more wind have lost some of the snow from their branches, but down below, everything is well covered. It isn't cold - well above freezing, and the snow on the road and driveway is melting.

Fred took this picture last night as the snow began to fall, just before it got really dark. I think the lowest temperature was 30 degrees  - just right for a nice spring snowfall.

I had some nice shots of the full moon sent to me the other day that I hadn't had time to post. Mary Whitcomb sent me a couple for Randolph - she is clever with her camera! This one looks like the moon is coming out of the smoke stack.

I think there was another one that someone sent me, but I'm not finding it at the moment. It's been sort of hectic for the last few days. We are all struggling to finish putting photos in place in the book chapters, and that is turning out to be both confusing and full of difficult choices.

We did our weekly shopping, curbside at White Market yesterday, and while that only took literally minutes to get the groceries, it takes quite a bit of time to sanitize everything before it goes into the refrigerator or cupboards and then sanitize the counters, sink and floor where we worked. We're getting it down to a system, though.

I had a message from oldest son, Bill - I think it was on Wednesday he called to say that the ice was gone on Styles Pond in Waterford, where he lives. He said he believes that Joe's Pond usually goes out about 10 days after Styles, so we are thinking perhaps around the 18th . . . ? No telling what this new snow will do, but old timers often have said that spring snow storms like this help the old snow go faster. We'll see.

In the meantime, Diane and Don Sherwood are here - Diane told me when she was walking yesterday she spotted a loon in the first pond!! I wonder if he/she will stay or head someplace more welcoming weather-wise after being snowed on last night.

As for those of us "sheltering-in-place" here, we don't see a lot of activity, but then, it boils down to our watching the road past our house. I mentioned to Fred the other day that is seemed like decades ago when we knew everyone that passed by and often commented, I wonder where they are going? or, there goes Ken and Shirley down for coffee at Joe's Pond Country Store. My father paid close attention to the traffic going by. He would sometimes wait in his "Scout" when there were construction trucks or if he spotted a logging truck or two going by and then follow them to find out who was building or cutting timber in the area. He would have had have a hard time keeping up with all of that in more recent years, but it would be a cinch these days.

Everyone in our family is well and getting used to the new "rules" about social distancing. Bill is only at his office during a few hours in the morning. He said nobody is interested in buying cars right now. Middle son, Bob is working from home as his office, Ridgeline Wealth Management is closed except for one or two who volunteered to be there to answer phone calls - people are stressed with the stock market all over the map. Jamie is going in to his office every day to keep KATV up and running, but with reduced staff - and there's plenty of space to keep their distance. Theresa is working from home (for KATV), Marie goes every day to Danville Health Center, and Monika is still working various shifts at NVRH in the radiology department. Jo-Anne is sheltering in place at her off-campus apartment at the University of Texas, Austin, doing on-line classes and keeping in touch with Bill, Monika and Tangeni nearly every day. We all worry about her, but she says she's ok. Tangeni says she misses her friends at school, but she has lots going on at home (she and her mom were playing on the trampoline last week, but I guess they'll be building snowmen this weekend!) Tangeni has been keeping up with her school work and is managing that well. Her dad told me she rushes to finish her school work in the the morning so she has afternoons free. He is impressed with how well Waterford School transitioned to accommodate being closed.  We hope everyone stays healthy.

Observing the Easter week has been difficult and different for many people, but it looks like the sun will shine on Easter Sunday, so we have that to look forward to, and everyone will make the best of whatever situation they are in, I'm sure. We humans are a resilient bunch and stronger than we knew when put to the test.  Stay well, be happy, check on your perhaps less fortunate neighbors and find peace and goodness wherever you can.