Posted 12:38 PM by Tamarack
Our Christmas cookout was a little different this year. We all walked out--Diane too--through a complete absence of snow. It was delightful--no awkward trudging. The only disappointment lay in my having bought everyone new snowshoes for Christmas. Still, two or three days later there was enough snow to try them out, and we did. For the last few days, I have been trekking out in rubber boots; there is still a little snow, quite packed down, but nothing that really requires snowshoes or skis. Today there was a little snow; it does not look like much in Fredericton, but we'll see how it is in the woods.

All in all, this has been a wonderful year for the trees. I carefully clipped all the leaves off the red oak, but we really haven't had those dreadful ice storms--yet.