First Snow

The first winter storm is magical and wonderfully transforming. Ours arrived yesterday morning with a sprinkling of confectionary flakes during chores. The intensity built throughout the day and by evening we were blanketed with an inch or so. Several inches fell during the night.

So pretty to wake up to a winter landscape. Cocoa, in her 12th year, led the flock out of the barn as I placed hay around the paddock. No one had yet ventured out, but she was eager to follow the hay sleigh.

The youngsters needed persuasion. I waved the flakes to coax them from the barn. Even so, they were reluctant to step in all that cold white stuff. Obviously, they need to adjust. There's lots more where that came from!

Some moments from this morning. Enjoy.

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Great-granny Cocoa 

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Dune contemplates snowy buckets. 

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Cognac & Violet share breakfast. 


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First Snow

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I was unprepared to wake this morning and find the world gone white.   By the time I reached  the barns, the roads were slick and the grass was hidden by our first real snow of the season.   Frankly, I was caught off guard.  Just yesterday I set up temporary fence in the southernmost hay field, in hopes of eking out another week of graze.   I had planned to move Crackerjack and the Leicesters there today.   It was not to be.  Instead, this  was the scene when I headed uphill  this morning.

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