Blizzard Alvin

Several years ago our local paper started giving names to our blizzards like they do hurricanes. Well Blizzard Alvin hit us on Christmas Eve and all day Christmas Day and into the next. All the interstates and most roads in the whole state were closed. We were left with 24 inches of snow on the level... but most of it wasn't level.
Outside the front window there was a big drift over the sidewalk to the front door.

You can see it measured 4 feet. That's why I am thankful for a snow blower. I used it to blow out my drive and the neighbors just in time to have the city plow come by and put three feet of road snow in our drives.

Oh well, that's why we love it up here. There are no mosquitoes when it snows like this...

Can't We All Get Along?

Bald eagles will hang around in the cold if there is enough to eat. Usually after deer harvest there are carcases that they can feed on if there isn't too much snow. A phone call from a rural friend told me where to find a bunch of them feeding on a dead deer. Here are five in a nearby tree waiting their turn.Several of them seem to be trying to discover the pecking order of who gets the best steak.
One got impatient and tried to move the one hogging the best feeding place. "Can't we all get along?"

Look at the size of the wings. Not sure if the grey feathers mean this is an old bird or not.

I like to think that the old guy won out.