Nice weather

Yesterday it was very windy.  And warmer than normal as the high temperature reached 53 degrees.  Much of the snow melted.  Today it was sunny all day - which is unusual for us in the Wintertime.  Usually it is cloudy for weeks on end.

Some photos from today.  You can see how the snow melted into water and pooled as the frost still is in the ground.  This pool of water is much deeper than it looks.  One cannot drive a vehicle or tractor through the water without flooding the vehicle or tractor.  And other areas where the water is not so deep turned into ice.

These are all box elder trees.  They are either male or female.  The female tree still has seeds on it.  The female tree does not release the seeds until Spring when the new leaves start to come out, which then pushes the seeds off the branches.