A Winter Wonderland Visitor

We woke up this morning to a very windy and snowy day. The weather folk had been reporting blizzard conditions coming our way. They were expecting it yesterday, but the snow didn't really get going until the wee hours of the morning. Can you believe that just yesterday it was raining and most of our snow had washed away?

Front porch view

                                                       View from the back porch.


Despite the wind and snow, we still had two visitors who were braving the blizzard to snack on some corn:

Here's one of them. Olive and I sat in her chair by the window (yes, Olive has her own special viewing chair) and watched Big Fat and Little Fat take turns getting some corn. This is Big Fat; I call him that because he's the bigger of the two plump squirrels that have been visiting our feeder. Little Fat was in a nearby tree carrying around what looked like a large hard roll. He seemed to have difficulty deciding where to stash his hard roll treasure when he would make his sorties to the feeder.

I couldn't capture the elusive Little Fat on camera (despite being weighed down by a hard roll that was nearly his own size) because he was too quick for me, but I took a picture of my bird house instead, looking forlorn and empty. When the snow really comes down,and if isn't windy, the bird house will be wearing a towering cap of snow.

Thanks for visiting!