The year started with a blizzard, so the drive home from the New Year Celebration was not pleasant.
The driving snow made visibility very poor, but bad as it was I could not help thinking about snowshoeing.
The high winds have a tendency to strip the snow off the fields, but it builds up in the woods.
Saturday was spent digging out the walks and cleaning the long driveway. The next day, Mya could hardly wait until I strapped on the snowshoes and headed for the woods trail.
The fresh snow added four or five inches of new snow but the packed trail underneath made for easy travel.
A snow storm wipes the slate clean, so that any new animal tracks show up easily. I noticed that the bush rabbits had packed down some of their main trails but nothing else seemed to be moving about.
We opened up about half a mile of the main trail and then came back the same route to pack it further.
In the days ahead we will open the other trails as time and weather permits. In spite of the high winds the snow continues to build up on the logs and trees that are leaning, or are on the ground.
While snow is commonly considered white, to the eye of the painter, blue in various shades is the main ingredient.
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