With and Without Snow

I'm still here!  I was away from the farm for a while, and when I got back I needed a few days to get a collection of photos to share, so here we go!
  Sunset on February 19:

8:08pm

8:11pm

Sunrise on the 21st:

9:46am

10:06am

Another sunrise on the 22nd:

These woodpeckers don't usually hang around our house a lot, but for some reason, a couple of northern flickers have been making frequent stops to our bird feeders this year.  Here's one of them on the 24th.  (You can see the melting snow on the driveway in the background.)

And then the snow came back.  It started falling in the evening of the 25th, and by the following morning, we had quite a lot of it already.  So here's the mountain ash tree clothed in its new blanket on the 26th, and then another shot of the flicker, who arrived for more food on the same day.

And five pictures from the 27th.  Three are just different angles of shots of the spruce trees, and one is just a visual of how much snow we got, most of it over one night.

This fifth picture was an accident.  The chickadee had better timing than I do.  He decided to fly up from his position on the ground just as I snapped a picture, and I happened to catch him in mid-air, along with his buddy and, of course, the flicker.  (Notice the difference of background between this picture and the first one of the flicker.)

And finally, this morning's sunrise.

Enjoy your weekend!