Yard Pictures: Snow Near the Driveway
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birdfeedingHere are some pictures of my yard from Friday, January 21, 2024 when it snowed. These come from near the driveway and the north end of the east yard.
This is a low drift between the driveway and the house. The driveway is off to the left with the garage at the end of it. The house is off to the right. Ahead is a thicket of assorted brush and yew bushes, along with a big mulberry tree. That thicket is another popular place for birds and other wildlife.
These ripples have one blade of grass just poking through.
These tiny snowballs have created their own drifts. I love how snow illustrates the air currents, even in miniature.
These ripples have captured a few fallen leaves. They look like sycamore, which is the emergent tree here. Yes, I have rainforest-type layers in a temperate climate. That big sycamore sticks way up above everything else. The canopy is mostly black walnut and hackberry, and the subcanopy is mostly mulberries and maples. I think most of the latter are silver maples, with one or two red maples and sugar maples, and one Japanese maple in the savanna.
These ripples have multiple grass blades peeking through.
This close, the ripples look abstract.
Here you can see the north side of the east yard. To the left is the thicket with brush and yew bushes. Then there is the big mulberry and with it a pile of big old logs. That's another wildlife shelter. Toward the right is a black walnut and a golden rain tree.
This is a closer view of the log pile. I'd like ot put an actual hibernaculum in there someday. There's also a row of hollow logs that I try to grow flowers in. Along the base of that row is a patch of grape hyacinths.
This is a low drift between the driveway and the house. The driveway is off to the left with the garage at the end of it. The house is off to the right. Ahead is a thicket of assorted brush and yew bushes, along with a big mulberry tree. That thicket is another popular place for birds and other wildlife.
These ripples have one blade of grass just poking through.
These tiny snowballs have created their own drifts. I love how snow illustrates the air currents, even in miniature.
These ripples have captured a few fallen leaves. They look like sycamore, which is the emergent tree here. Yes, I have rainforest-type layers in a temperate climate. That big sycamore sticks way up above everything else. The canopy is mostly black walnut and hackberry, and the subcanopy is mostly mulberries and maples. I think most of the latter are silver maples, with one or two red maples and sugar maples, and one Japanese maple in the savanna.
These ripples have multiple grass blades peeking through.
This close, the ripples look abstract.
Here you can see the north side of the east yard. To the left is the thicket with brush and yew bushes. Then there is the big mulberry and with it a pile of big old logs. That's another wildlife shelter. Toward the right is a black walnut and a golden rain tree.
This is a closer view of the log pile. I'd like ot put an actual hibernaculum in there someday. There's also a row of hollow logs that I try to grow flowers in. Along the base of that row is a patch of grape hyacinths.
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