Winter is here, with a vengeance!

 We had a beautiful Fall that hung on for a while.  However, this past week, winter arrived in full blast.

Tuesday it started snowing.

I had the day off and was taking my Dad on some errands.  Here's how things looked in early afternoon.

A few hours later it was still snowing.

It snowed again on Wednesday.

On Thursday we were under a winter storm warning.  This is out the window at work, where the leaves had been so beautiful a few short weeks ago!   My drive home was terrible that night; ice, freezing rain, white out conditions and accidents.

On Friday the Winter storm warning continued.  I was very happy to hear that our office was closed and we all got to work at home. I'm so thankful for the ability to do that and for a place that doesn't want us going out in bad weather.  So, our table was my workplace for the day.

In the meantime, the snow continued.  I think it's time to get rid of the pumpkins.  I had hoped to keep them till Thanksgiving.

By Friday night we had 13 inches of snow, the storm warning was extended to Sunday and another 6-12 inches of snow was predicted, with blizzard like conditions on Saturday.

We had a little reprieve on Saturday morning so I used that time to run to town to get groceries.  This is our road as I returned home and it was just starting to snow again.

Shortly after noon, this is how our back yard looked as it really started coming down.

This is the view out of our front window in mid afternoon.  Bob was working and when he got home around 6, he said it was a terrible drive home.

But look what happened Sunday!  The snow stopped, and the sun came out.  I believe we ended up with about 19 inches of snow.  Grand Rapids, just a little east of us ended with 27 inches, a record for this time in November.

Next week temps are supposed to be in the 40's, so all this snow should melt.
Still - what a wild way to start Winter!