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Old Man Winter returned to our part of Tennessee last week with more snow than we’ve had in several years. We also had freezing fog and ice which left the trees and bushes with glazed with ice.
We unfortunately did have much sunshine and blue skies during the week. This photo was taken a few years ago when the trees were similarly bejeweled
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My Beautiful Bride and I love the Smoky Mountains, although we don’t like the busy times (or places) when there are so many tourists around. So we go to the park in the winter or visit some of the places that aren’t on everyone’s list of things to see.
I got this picture of the Middle Prong of Little River on a January visit to the park a few years ago. That’s Lower Spruce Flat Falls coming down the mountain on the other side of the river.
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One of the advantages of visiting waterfalls in December is that we can often see water in a couple of different forms. This picture of ice and water was taken a few years back at Dry Falls in the Cullasaja Gorge of North Carolina.
Our house in the snow. February 18, 2015.
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We had quite a week here in the Glade last week — three storms in a single week is just a bit much.
The ice in the first storm missed us, but we did get snow as you can see in the photo above.
My Beautiful Bride enjoying the snow. February 18, 2015.
Of course, my Beautiful Bride was delighted.
Icy branches on one of our red bud trees. February 19, 2015.
The second storm brought us some ice with ice covered twigs on the trees …
A giant icicle near our front porch. February 19, 2015.
… and giant icicles.
Icy branches of trees in our yard against a blue sky. February 19, 2015.
The icy tree branches shone against a pretty blue sky on Thursday.
A tree with a broken top in our side yard. February 22, 2015.
Unfortunately the third storm brought a couple of inches of ice with broken tree tops and branches. Our neighborhood looked like a war zone, and we were without power for a couple of days.
I hope it’s a long time before we have another week like this.
Looking down into the gorge near Old Man’s Cave, Hocking Hills State Park, Ohio. March 10, 2014.
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Ice along canyon walls, Hocking Hills State Park, Ohio. March 10, 2014.
Old Man’s Cave is a recess cave in a gorge in Ohio’s Hocking Hills State Park. Betsy and I have been to the park a couple of times and have enjoyed hiking down to the cave. The park contains several waterfalls which had very little water when we visited before, so we went back there in early March hoping to find more flowing water. We found more water, but we also found a great deal of ice, which was unexpected.
Ice along the walls of the gorge, Hocking Hills State Park. March 10, 2014.
The walls of the gorge were covered in ice in many places, which was very beautiful but made it tricky to get down to the floor of the gorge.
A column of ice near Old Man’s Cave, Hocking Hills State Park, Ohio. March 11, 2014.
Once I got down to the floor of the gorge, it was fascinating to see the huge columns of ice reaching from an overhang to the base of the cliff. In the photo above you can even see some blue ice in the column.
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My Beautiful Bride is unhappy because we haven’t gotten much snow this winter — only two measurable snowfalls so far. I’ve been trying to tell her that things could be worse, but I’m not sure she believes me.
Lake Sherwood, Fairfield Glade, Tennessee. February 7, 2012.
So I thought I would show her things could be worse. These pictures were taken in February, 2012, on a walk on one of the trails here in the Glade. As you can see, it was a beautiful sunny day without a cloud in the sky.
Lake Sherwood, Fairfield Glade, Tennessee. February 7, 2012.
We walked around Lake Sherwood, and admired the reflections in the still water of the lake. All-in-all it was a beautiful day. And there wasn’t a snowflake in sight.
Our back yard in the snowstorm, Fairfield Glade, Tennessee. January 21, 2014.
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My Beautiful Bride can be impatient at times, and she has been waiting for snow ever since Thanksgiving. But she wasn’t waiting for just any snow — it had to be a perfect snowstorm: The snowflakes had to be big and fluffy, they had to fall during daylight, and the snow had to cling to trees and branches.
I’m happy to say that Betsy was a happy camper on Tuesday. It started snowing in the morning and snowed off and on during most of the day. It didn’t take long for the deck and the golf course to have a cover of white.
The Stars and Stripes in our front yard. January 21, 2014.
The flag in front of the house provided a little color on what was a fairly gray day. The wind came up and caused the flag to stand out from the pole.
The view in front of our house, Fairfield Glade, Tennessee. January 21, 2014.
But the best part was that the trees and bushes all wore a coat of white.
New-fallen snow on the fairway behind our house, Fairfield Glade, Tennessee. January 6, 2014.
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As most of you know, Betsy loves snow and never gets enough of it. (She obviously never had to trudge through a foot of the stuff in early morning darkness to milk the cows!). Well, she finally got some snow last week.
We didn’t get a lot of snow — maybe a couple of inches — but it did look pretty on the fairway behind our house.
Shadows and snow on the fairway, Fairfield Glade, Tennessee. January 6, 2014.
The bare trees made intricate shadows on the fresh snow.
The view from our front porch, Fairfield Glade, Tennessee. January 6, 2014.
There was very little traffic along the road in front of our house.
The cold and lonely bench in our front yard, Fairfield Glade, January 6, 2014.
Since the coldest temperatures in more than twenty years accompanied the snow, no one was sitting on the bench in our front yard.
Icy tree branches on a beautiful winter day, Fairfield Glade, Tennessee. January 31, 2010.
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We’ve had a mild winter so far this year, and I’m not complaining, But I will admit that snow — and even ice — can be beautiful as long as I don’t have to drive in it. I took this picture in our yard a couple of years ago, and thing the icy branches look good against the blue sky.
An ice-covered tree in our front yard, Fairfield Glade, Tennessee. January 31, 2010.
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Winter is not my favorite season of the year (just ask Betsy), but I will admit that at times it can be quite beautiful. This picture was taken back in 2010, the day after an ice storm here on the Plateau. The sky was an unbelievable blue that beautifully set off the ice-covered branches of a tree in our front yard.
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