View from our front door.

I suppose that to be precise it isn’t Winter yet, but it certainly feels like it. We had somewhere between 7 inches and a foot of snow.

Bench and patio table.

Leaves.

The above pictures were taken around 2:00 p.m., five hours into the storm and with about another 10 hours to go (although to be fair it did diminish significantly as the day went on). Shortly after they were taken the power went out. A fire and some candles made the situation somewhat more bearable. As a friend remarked it looks quite romantic. Yes – it was warm enough and quite cosy, but when you think that for us no power means no water (we have well water and without electricity the well pump doesn’t work) and no water means no functioning toilets – the romance kind of goes away. The power came back on around 5:15 p.m. – shortly after this picture was taken – so it wasn’t too bad.

Today (two days later) I went down to our other house to shovel the snow in the driveway and was surprised to find that there wasn’t any. What a difference 26 miles makes.