{"id":835,"date":"2010-02-23T17:36:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T23:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=835"},"modified":"2010-02-23T23:47:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T05:47:37","slug":"snow-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=835","title":{"rendered":"Snow Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On a snowy morning, the horses frolic like kids out of school.<\/p>\n

Snow started about 6:45,\u00a0 just as we entered town after driving through sleet\/rain from Leander, where we’d dropped M- off at the bus terminus.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s snowed off and on all day.\u00a0 Beautiful clean country snow, melting underneath from the warmth of the ground, but still…lovely.\u00a0 Took a long walk this afternoon, up to Fox Pavilion in the dry woods, down the north fenceline to the creek, and into the creek woods, then home along the south fenceline.<\/p>\n

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The pasture gate, morning<\/em><\/p>\n

This was taken about two or three hours into the snowfall.<\/p>\n

\"snow-drywoods-swale106\"Dry woods swale in snowfall, afternoon<\/em><\/p>\n

I stood in the wind-shadow of a large live oak to take this, and even so some snow was eddying in under it, though the ground on this downwind side was bare.<\/p>\n

\"snow-south-FoxPav107\"Looking south from Fox Pavilion, afternoon<\/em><\/p>\n

\"snow-west-FoxPav110\"Looking west from Fox Pavilion, afternoon
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From under Fox Pavilion’s roof, I could take pictures with less risk to the camera; this clearly shows Ashe junipers (“cedars”) heavily loaded with snow, and bent over.\u00a0 They provide excellent winter storm cover for small birds; the ground underneath often stays clear of snow.<\/p>\n

\"snow-west-grass111\"Looking south across the West Grass, between the Dry Woods and the creek<\/em><\/p>\n

The darker line of trees on the right is the Creek Woods, trending south and widest at the south end;\u00a0 the creek woods meets the fencerow trees on the south fenceline (here about a quarter mile away.)\u00a0 Grass composition varies across this area, and there are old terraces involved, too.<\/p>\n

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\"snow-north-ford114\"North Ford of creek, near north fenceline<\/em><\/p>\n

Once more I sheltered under a tree (this time an Ashe juniper) to get the camera ready and then stepped out to take this.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The creek flows from right (north) to left (south) with many twists and turns–there’s a sharp turn about 20-30 yards upstream, and just below the ford.<\/p>\n

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