landscape,  natural areas,  snow,  trees,  window

Happy Mother’s Day!

Snow Covered Trail and a favorite Cottonwood tree
Snow Covered Trail and a favorite Cottonwood tree

It has been raining for the past several days. Thankfully it has been a gentle and refreshing rain and much needed moisture. We have seen severe weather conditions over the past few days. There have been tornado warnings, hail warnings, flash flood warnings, and winter weather warnings. Temperatures started to drop down to freezing yesterday afternoon. As it dropped the rain changed to snow, heavy wet snow. My understanding is some areas of Colorado had as much as 6 inches of snow.

Fort Collins is reporting over 2.5 inches of moisture the past 3 days. The 1 to 3 inches of snow they predicted for last night fizzled out. We only received a dusting of snow as you can see in the above image taken this morning of a favorite cottonwood along the Fisher Nature Trail. The image below was taken yesterday afternoon from my bedroom window during some heavier rain.

Gentle Rain
Gentle Rain

And, Happy Mother’s Day to all!

Retired. Having fun with photography. Journal daily. Meditate daily. Learning haiku/poetry. Have a love for fountain pens.

2 Comments

  • Tom Dills

    I hope your day was a good one, Monte. Kathy and I are in our favorite little getaway town of Waynesville, NC this weekend and even managed to stretch it into 4 days. Kathy got her requisite phone calls this morning and will see the kids for dinner on Tuesday. The “baby” turns 29 this year. For the first time. 😉