A Siberian Sunday The First Day Of March

March showed up last night with a big bag of freezing. The skies were clear and the sun was out yesterday morning, but the temperature never rose above 21 F. Made for some interesting snowmelt/snowfreeze events. The snow that had accumulated on the pergola above the back deck sagged as the snow warmed it a bit, but then froze in place as clouds moved in and the temperature quickly dipped. Made for a garland of snow. 

In the front of the house, which has a southern exposure, enough snow melted to get a small trickle of water flowing directly over the garage. However, as the water left the roof and fell under the much colder area beneath the eaves, it froze, and a very long icicle-of-death was formed over one of the garage doors.

That travel brochure for the Turks and Caicos Islands is starting to look good. Real good.

                     Bonus pic of the pergola frozen snow garland the morning of March 2nd.