Much to my surprise (and dismay) I totally missed Sandie’s 5 in 5 meme in January. And, to be truthful, when her post popped up in Feedly yesterday, I was surprised to realize it was already the fifth of February. Not to worry, though, she kindly gives us until the 25th to post five photos taken in five minutes. Although the month has barely begun, I’m already struggling to keep my intention of a photo every day. Thank goodness we have some lovely flowering house plants! But I was determined to get five photos today, and stepped out onto the patio to see what I could find. About three inches of new snow fell last night, and although it warmed up enough today to rain part of the afternoon, there’s still snow on the ground. According to the meteorologist, we can count on up to another foot of snow by this time tomorrow night! I’m not a fan. But here’s what I found in my five minutes on the patio.
Right off, I saw the deer tracks going across the patio. If you look closely you’ll see the deer walked to the right of the fire pit and off to the right. Sunday night when we pulled out of the driveway, four deer (one with a large rack) were walking out of our yard into our neighbor’s yard. We live in a pretty urban area, and many people are surprised to hear we regularly have deer and fox in the neighborhood.
Normally, this pretty ornament would be sitting among some plants and flowers. Today there’s a totally white background.
The chairs for the patio table never made it to the shed in the fall. Our first heavy snow was early in November and the leaves hadn’t even fallen off the linden tree. Everything got off schedule.
The bird house Tracy purchased as a decoration has actually housed a few birds over the years. It’s going to need to be straightened up come spring.
And finally, the metal bird on the new fence. By tomorrow, it will likely be totally obscured.
I gave some thought to waiting until next weekend when the George Eastman House will open the Dutch Collection exhibit. The mansion will be filled with beautiful spring flowers, but I’ve used that in the past for the February 5 in 5, and frankly, these photos are the reality here in February, not the Dutch bulbs.
All very pretty captures of snow. Almost makes it a pleasure (lol). Deer use to be in abundance here, now not as much. 🙁
We shoveled the driveway twice yesterday, once this morning & there’s more to come 🙁
You make me SOOO happy that I don’t live further north! We haven’t had any appreciable snow yet and I’ll be just fine if we don’t… we used to have deer wander into our neighborhood, but I haven’t seen any in awhile. We also had brown bear sightings many years ago!
We have deer through our yard all the time … lately leaving muddy footprints. Thankfully we haven’t had any snow accumulation so far this year. That might change this morning, though!
Oh how pretty! I like the one of the ornament, as well as the shapes picked out in the chairs.
Oh, that is a lot of snow! It looks so pretty and especially the yard ornament.
I enjoyed reading your post when you first posted Karen but I have trouble making comments from my mobile for some reason. The snow made me feel chilly and I’m pleased to say that so far we have escaped any flakes this winter. Despite the cold and the ice that sometimes results, there is a loveliness about snow. Seeing the deer tracks must have been interesting, it’s like a view into a world we don’t usually see. I like that you chose the snow for this post, over the tulips, it gives an insight into your life and reality, just as you say. Thank you for sharing and taking part in 5in5.
Only you, with your skill and great eye for detail, could make five photos in the snow look so texturally interesting, Karen :). And somehow focussing on the reality of ‘now’ has brought us just as much pleasure as your future pretty bulb photos would. Hoping the winter eases for you soon – it seems like it has been a long, snowy one.
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