December is Winter!

Two days ago "we" were greeted with below freezing temperatures.  The fountain in the fish pond has icicles hanging below the flowing water.  It won't be long before the ponds freeze over and the fish go dormant for the winter months. 

The "killing frost" showed itself on the grass and other surviving vegetation.  That was the end of fall.  It was also "deer season" for those with permits and guns!  I haven't seen "my deer" since the first season two weeks ago.  I wonder if they survived the on slaught.  One more season this year (for guns that is).

I did have a hunter show up on Friday night.  Apparently he had hit a deer about a half mile from here and had been tracking it.  He wanted permission to look for it in my backyard (which naturally I gave him - who wants a dead deer in the yard?).  I have no idea if he found it or not.

This morning provided the first snow fall that stuck. Blondie (who else) was the first "inside" cat to venture forth.  BK had spent the night out and tracked the deck while waiting to get inside at 6:30 AM.  Winter has definitely arrived.  The snow has now departed (for the day), but we have the promise of more tomorrow night.  Time to decorate for the season.

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? ~J.B. Priestley