The sun is out....

...and there is plenty of snow on the ground!

The first photo was taken Jan 19th out our front dining room window, before the sun came out to melt the snow.

Just as a comparison, this next one was taken on Jan 7th after a light snowfall.

These pictures below were taken this morning, Jan 20th. You can certainly see that God has added a few more inches of the white stuff to the ground and on the trees since Jan 7th! When I got up this morning around 7 a.m., it was a mere -1 degrees. At nearly 2 p.m. it is all the way up to 11 degrees. It certainly has been cold and snowy around here lately. The first picture below is of mom's house at the end of our drive that is lined on both sides by the spruce trees. If you click on it to see full size, you can see where I had to climb up on the roof to see what was going on with her furnace vent. THAT was FUN.....NOT!

This is our house in the photo below looking through the Colorado Blue Spruce trees along the road edge. The poor bushes along the front of the house will take all summer to recover from the heavy load of snow that is covering them.
Here below is a shot looking down the center of the double row of trees along the roadside looking to the north. The snow is starting to fall out of the top of the trees and onto the lower branches. The sun has already melted a lot of the snow away.

We hope that everyone is doing well and keeping warm. The scenery is beautiful, but we sure wish that we were somewhere warmer!