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I love how snow piles on this 100-year old white spruce fencing I purchased in Canada. One can sometimes tell the direction of the wind by the way the snow collects on the trees – it creates such interesting patterns on the tree trunks. They are impressive trees by any standard, and beautiful in any season. Just off the carriage road leading to my tennis court, is this stand of dawn redwoods, Metasequoia, with their straight trunks. The bright white snow looks so pretty against the golden-green foliage. The snow accumulated on almost every branch of this oriental spruce, but did not weigh any down too much. The Alaska cedar is an interesting medium-sized evergreen tree with gray-green to blue-green foliage that droops from widely spaced branches. This area includes pines, spruces, firs, and others. Tucked away between the Equipment Barn and a grove of weeping willows is my pinetum where I keep a wonderful collection of evergreens I started planting about 12-years ago. It’s interesting how some drop all their leaves, while others hold onto them as long as possible. The snow covers the area showing just a hint of the green grassy lawn.Īmerican beech trees are slow to grow, but can live up to 300-years. This paddock fence borders my grove of American beech trees, Fagus grandifolia. They line one side of my soccer field and the archery range I set up for my grandson, Truman. This is a row of six weeping hornbeams, Carpinus betulus Pendula. I love the shadows these uprights cast on the ground below. They’re perfect as posts because they don’t rot over time like the wood overhead. The uprights for this pergola are antique granite posts from China – originally used as grape supports. This is a view looking down from the end of my clematis pergola. One can see the rounded tree pits clearly marked by the snow. Here are the trunks of the mighty pin oaks that grow alongside my large Equipment Barn. We got enough snow just to cover the ground.
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Hard to tell this is pachysandra underneath the snow. It was just about 32-degrees Fahrenheit in the early morning with temperatures rising to nearly 40-degrees by midday. Because the air is cold, all the way down to the surface, snowflakes don’t melt. The light fluffy snow forms when all layers of the atmosphere are below freezing. The area got just a coating, but enough to cover almost everything in white. There’s always a bit of excitement with the first snow.