42 degrees
Wednesday, May. 17, 2017 - 20:31

Yeah it snowed - at least in our neighborhood - wet heavy stuff that was caught by the leaves and branches of all the trees and bushes, weighing them down, snapping them off. Our large lilac was bent so far it was touching the ground. Branches on the big cottonwood up on the hill snapped off, and some on the big elm with the large branch resting on a power line. The maples across the street lost branches. The bee-butt larkspur, the tops snapped off. The poppies are flattened.

The puppy and his roommate were outside early knocking the snow off things, trying to save the branches. The lilac started standing up again, and the apple trees, the plum. We walked around to the front of the house, though, and found that the little tree by the front porch had fallen over completely, broken at the roots. The puppy's roommate pulled it out, sawed off the larger limbs, left the new growth, and put it back in the ground. Hopefully it comes back.

Everything had been looking so good! That little tree out front looked the best it had in years, pink blossoms. The bee-butt larkspur was so tall and round. They'll recover, it'll be fine, but it's hard to see it happening.

I drove to work, drove through town, came across the river - a couple branches down over here, but nothing like our neighborhood. Ah ha ha, says Mother Nature.