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The ravine below our small house in the mountains was covered with snow in the Christmas storm.  The most recent snow covered the ravine, too, but is now melting with warmer temperatures.  Snow-covered ravine My gardening companion just sent me this photo (finally) downloaded from 'his' camera, a small digital camera that we're now taking traveling, instead of my Nikon D100, an older digital workhorse.

Clearing skies framed sunlight at dusk. We ended up with over 13 inches of snow from Christmas Day until today. It was light, fluffy snow, and folks ventured forth a bit on foot yesterday. The platform feeder was actively visited. Today, the roads are OK, at least with AWD, and the temperatures will be moderating by mid-week. This squirrel seemed to be working on her/his nest materials. The evening winter light was lovely.