A Jaunt in the Snow on Easter Weekend

A happy Easter weekend to all!

Here are a couple of pictures from our snowshoeing this morning and Ella's visit with the horses.

We've been under a blizzard warning almost continuously for the last five days and the snow is proof that warnings in the UP are a little different from those LP forecasts. I think the current total is just over three feet of fresh powder. We had bare ground on Monday and I was starting to work on plants in the yard. Winter came back on Tuesday.

We had a great time snowshoeing. Even Fletcher seemed to enjoy himself for being a Southern dog. He had been rather depressed to have spring snatched out from under his paws without warning. But some extra rations and this walk in the woods lifted his spirits.


Here's Ella and me with our friends' Belgian, Star. Shortly after this photo was taken she sampled Ella's mitten. It's a good thing for mitten strings!

Ella's been practicing up on all her animal noises and she will expect you to know your noises when she visits next week. She likes the farm animals, but she is also familiar with the animals of greater Africa and some of the South American species.

Again I wish you a happy Easter. I encourage you to submit your most Easterly picture, as we have done here.