I could not pass on the opportunity to snap a few photos of this wet snow sticking to plants. Temperatures were far too cold in mid-January for the heavier snow and sleet to stick to leaves in the gusty winds, but today we’re hovering around freezing. It will become warmer overnight as the next front…

Once the soggy ground dries a bit, I plan to retrieve a handful of small boulders that have been lost through the years in the clutter of plants. The boulders were at first set out as irregular stone borders, and three others retained soil for a witch hazel planted along a drainage swale. Unfortunately, the…