Bummer here. My glare ice sat got a foot snow Sun. Today they got another 12 plus still going. At my homestead we got 6 " then pouring rain for 2hr @29 deg then back to heavy snow at nightfall. It's a sloppy mess and my ice adventures from here on will be tough dragging.

From just south of Jefferson  co border they got about 1.5 feet Friday and into the night from LE . We got a few inches but that's it. Temps going up and maybe some rain today.

Robins are not very smart. They often come back way too early.

See a red-winged blackbird, and winter is all over with.

It could be worse. You could be sitting in the pouring rain on the ice.

Plenty of ice but now there's lots of water coming in and on top.
Big craters from yesterday's holes .
Steady downpours . I'm not fair weather by any means so it's going to take another roaring fire to dry gear out later.
Once again I think I'll be walking on water through March but I'm also looking forward to some moving water .
2 trips planned for SR with wife . 1 soon the other in April.

Spring is coming, so is the snow and rain

Not much happened here a sprinkle of rain but it still got below freezing overnight. After Fridays drag and everything soaking wet,  I tweaked my back and decided to call it for the weekend. It's a bit windy here too. I am having second thoughts though as my trip today would of been to the river.

Spring is near. Sun is getting stronger, winds from south. I would love a slow melt instead of a mud fest. Right now, 80 degrees in the man cave packing ice gear seems nice

Spring fishers the mud season is starting... give it a week or so and it will be spring steelhead season eventhough it's not spring yet :)

Get it while ya can tuna!!! Yup it's the time if year where snow depths range from 0-48 inches around here :D

The fat lady is warming up here.

Therrrre hereee.... and soon to be followed by low temps, north winds gusting into the 40s (for two days) bringing 2 to 4" of snow into my little piece of woods. (10" muup north)


No not Robins, haven't seen none of those yet, but Red Winged Blackbirds and, not baked in a pie.

Picture sucks but I couldn't 'neak up on the little rascals for a clear shot.

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C'mon SandHill's.....


Oh, not that you can see em, but thems my new, just planted last fall, apple trees. 2 Honey Crisp and 1 Cortland.

Raining like the cow and proverbial flatrock, here in my neck of Penn's Woods. Waiting for the winds to change direction as the tailend of this system begins to drop and wrap around.

Rain slacked just enough before sunset to allow for a mad dash, getting two suet feeders and two seed feeders stocked before the snow arrives.

Heard my first Robin but didn't dare stop, to lay an eyeball on it.

Wind straight out of the north beginning to change the rain to large snowflakes while driving the temps toward the lower 30s. Sustained in the lower teens and gusting to the lower 20s the wind has the rain and snow coming in between 45 degree angle and horizontal.

Deck surface slowly morphing from wet to icy as the wind chimes change from low subtle tones, to outright clangin and bangin.

Today being the first day of the month, might I be safe in saying, March is coming in like a lion???

Looking out my window it looks like a blizzard,but it is just warm enough that the snow is melting on contact....so far!

We dodged the bullet as far as snow accumulation but what did come down, or should I say horizontal, was heavy wet stuff that immediatel stuck and froze to everything facing north. Kind of neat hearing the frozen stuff, stuck to the trees, crackling as the sun warmed the surfaces.

Everything shoveled this morning has completly dried as have the area roads, that never saw a saltshaker.

Trees and underbrush beginning to take on the red hue as buds begin sprouting and I expect my Pin Oaks, to soon be losing their winter foilage.

Set my field cams along my bayou, last week, hoping to capture some water fowl pics as the migration begins back to the north. Plenty of Canada Geese and three Mallards taking up residence so far, but no dadburned Sand Hills yet.