DonDiego announces the arrival of Winter a few days before the actual Solstice here at Tomato Ranch Ridge.
Today DonDiego's homestead has been buried beneath very-nearly a foot of clean white snow, . . . with more to come before dawn tomorrow. It makes the world a mite quieter.
There are lots of cardinals and, especially bluebirds, still flitting about the neighborhood; poor old DonDiego will fill the feeders around his domicile first thing after sunrise.
Do you normally get a lot of snowfall there? Southern Indiana rarely gets any significant snowfall anymore. We quit getting the kind of accumulations you mentioned in the 1980s.
Normal is prb'ly 2 or 3 snowfalls totalling less than 10 inches each year, . . . maybe a mite more up heh' on the ridge.
This is a lot, . . . and it's not even Winter yet.
The bird feeders are full now, . . . still lots of cardinals, blue jays, and bluebirds flittin' about and a few finches and sparrows. Two days ago I saw 7 bluebirds perched on the birdbath at even intervals around the circumference; I don't know how they calculate the 51 degree separation so well.
