Farandaville Winter Wonderland!? … it depends

Depends on your appetite for snow. And snow has gotten pretty old and boring lately, what with an all-time record snowfall for January in New York.

The house from a couple of angles – pictures by Brigid.

Brigid then gives me the camera and heads to the backyard

complete with a trekking pole to measure the depth of the snow

The measurement is in – it was 19 inches of snow in our backyard, without any drifts. 

 
And who was doing the heavy lifting, while the fat old guy took pictures through the back window?

Brigid then took the camera and went icicle-hunting in the back –

We think the longest ones are around five feet.

 

Here they are from inside looking out – taken by me, of course.

 Brigid’s jacket was about the only non-dreary thing in this whole posting …