Wacky Weather

Birdhouse by deck

 It's been feeling like spring here in Minnesota lately.

Yesterday people were outside without jackets, and this morning the birds were happily chirping as I walked into work.

I don't remember a January where it was this mild; we're breaking all kinds of records.

Maybe Mother Nature feels guilty about being so cruel to us last year.

Last winter was exactly the opposite, it was the worse winter we've had in a long time.

Vegetable garden

We had tons of snow, a couple blizzards and bitter cold for months.

Travel was a nightmare, many of my daily commutes were 4-5 times longer than usual.

Yep, it was pretty miserable.

Large perennial garden

The other night on the news, they said last year at this time we had about 5 feet of snow.


Compared to this year...

Well, so far this year, we've had less than a foot of measurable snow in Minneapolis... and most of that has melted.

Wow!

Pergola, pond and vegetable garden

Speaking of last winter - I was browsing through my blog archive, and I came across one I wrote on December 18th, 2010.

This was written a week after our first blizzard of the season.

In that post, I shared a bunch of pictures of my gardens after the blizzard.

Back pond

I thought it would be fun to compare, so I ran outside and snapped some pictures of my gardens as they look today.

I took similar shots to the ones in last years blog post (and put them in the same order), so you could see the difference.

So take a moment to compare the pictures in today's post with the pictures in this post... Winter Gardens After the Blizzard.

Let me know what you think - it really is crazy how different this winter is from last year.


P.S. If winter was like this every year, I wouldn't dislike it so much!

P.P.S. Some of the landmarks have changed, don't let that throw you off in your comparison.

------------------------------------------------------------------