3/05/12 SNOW

AMERICAN HIGH BUSH CRANBERRY

ANCIENT APPLE TREES

ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE THE UP

WINTER WOODS WITH MORNING SHADOWS

Monday, 8:00 AM.  22 degrees F, up from 16 degrees last night.  Wind S, calm.  The sky is clear and the barometer is high, and it will be a beautiful winter day after the stormy  spell.  For more time-lapse photography of ice and water from Weedengraphics.com, go to http://youtu.beWhz3AcsXJ6Y?hd=1 
        Wanting badly to get out of the house for a while yesterday Joan, Buddy and I drove around the orchard country and the back roads looking at…you guessed it…lots of snow.  I would judge there to be 3’ of snow in the woods and much deeper where it has drifted.  Ancient apple trees draped in snow were an artist’s dream, but I didn’t see any painters sitting in the drifts with easel and palette.  American high bush cranberry bushes, Viburnum trilobum, with their clusters of bright red berries, stood out in the landscape. It was a very clear afternoon, and the shoreline of the UP (Upper Peninsula Michigan) and the distant Gogebic Range was clearly visible from the highest point on Hwy. J.