Late Spring Snowstorm

Last weekend we got quite a dumping of snow. In my neighborhood it was about six inches, but other parts of town got as much as double that. It wasn't the fluffy, powdery kind but the heavy and wet stuff that's typical this time of year. The weather had gotten hot far too early in May, and it's been extremely windy and bone dry -- no precipitation in ages -- so I did not complain about a few inches of soggy snow and a couple of days of rain (and neither did Frodo, our dog). We needed it. The fire danger has been off the charts, so we all got to breathe easy for at least a few days, anyway. All of these pictures were taken in our backyard, and as you can see, like so many other trees around the city, our silver maple unfortunately lost some large branches.

After several days of dreariness and chill, the sun finally showed itself again this afternoon, and save for the many broken tree limbs still littering the streets, it was as if the snowstorm had never happened.