#Spring #Iowa #Flowers #snow

A voice with a highly-affected, Missouri-British accent:

“April is the cruelest month…”

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A twig of redbud tree with several clumps of pink flowers. The flowers are encased in ice and snow. A light coating of snow on the ground, but green grass still showing through.

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A clump of blue scilla flowers. The flowers and leaves are bent down by the ice and snow. Crusty snow all around.

#maine #weather #snow

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Snowy scene. Sky is overcast and fat snowflakes are visible in the foreground. An increasingly snow-covered yard with a forsythia bush, pin cherry tree, a wrapped fig tree. Pine and bare deciduous trees in the background.

#maine #weather #snow

As a New Englander it is my God given right to complain about the weather.

Its April 7, why is it snowing outside?

Of course it is not as bad as the storm of '78

#boston #massachusetts #snow

#Nature #Wildlife

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Off To Work We Go

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#AltText #NoAI #No2AI #Photo #CamelCase #Photography #Travel #Animal #Ice #TravelPhotography #Animals #Remote #Wilderness #Antarctic #Antartica #Bird #BlackAndWhite #Penguin #Penguins #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #Penguin #Monochrome #Birds #Snow #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BNW #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #Birding

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This is a black and white wildlife photo in landscape format of three Penguins walking down a snow and ice covered slope towards the sea. Andvord Bay, Antarctica (2024). In the foreground is a mass of rough snow and ice sloping gently from the upper left downwards towards the lower right. A short distance from the camera, say three metres, are three Gentoo Penguins (Pygoscelis Papua), viewed in profile with their right sides in view, walking in a line from left to right, along a well trodden path in the snow down towards the sea. The lower quarter of the birds is obscured being within the trough that forms the path. Each Penguin is spaced about one metre from each other. In common with many other Penguins the Gentoo has a white front and black back. The head and neck are also black except for a small white patch that stretches from the eye, over the top of the head to the opposite eye. Their white fronts are dirty, personal hygiene is not a Penguin thing, this mess on their fronts confirms that they have come from the rockery (colony) and not the sea, which would have quickly cleaned any mess off the birds. Their wings (flippers) are extended assisting their balance. In the background is a solitary dark rock, mostly covered with snow. Beyond is a glacier with the wide cracks, fissures and crevasses are easily visible. The location is Andvord Bay on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsular, about 100km north of the Antarctic Circle.

I'm waking up to a lot of work this morning. Sure is pretty though.

#snow #winter #fargomoorhead #fargond #northdakota #snowpocalypse #fargo

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A red pickup truck is covered deep in snow on a city street. Trees are covered by thick, wet heavy snow. An illuminated street light illuminates falling snow. Its early morning on an overcast day.

To shovel, or not to shovel — that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the back to suffer
The slips and tumbles of outrageous winter,
Or to take arms against a driveway of snow
And by shoveling, clear it. To wait — to melt,
No more; and by a melt to say we end
The aching lumbar and the thousand frozen shocks
That driveways are heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To wait, to melt;
To melt, perchance by Tuesday — ay, there's the rub:
For in that wait, what neighbors might then come
When we have shuffled past in our pajamas,
Must give us pause. There's the embarrassment
That makes a spectacle of so long a driveway.
For who would bear the scrape and grunt of toil,
The frozen shovel, the numb and mittened hands,
The pangs of a pulled muscle, the cold's delay,
The insolence of a second storm on Thursday,
And the sneers of the neighbor who snowblows in minutes,
When he himself might simply wait it out
With a warm cup of coffee? Who would labor,
To huff and puff beneath a leaden sky,
But that the dread of something — say, the mailman,
Or a mother-in-law who visits unannounced —
Puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear the snow we have
Than explain to others why we didn't shovel?
Thus laziness doth make philosophers of us all,
And thus the noble urge to go outside
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of forecast,
And the Weather app, of great import and promise,
With this regard doth send us back to bed
And lose the name of action.

#ndwx #fargond #NorthDakota #Snow #snowstorm #fargomoorhead #mnwx

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Street scene showing snow covering yards and a city street.