It is here

Whitish balls of hard water in your garden?

You are not a drug dealer, Jacob, are you?

Ton,

I wonder whether the Sami will end up with six seasons instead of eight, Tjaktje-Daelvie (Autumn-Winter) and Daelvie (Winter) being cancelled and Gijre-Daelvie (Spring-Winter) being replaced by Gijre-Tjaktje (Spring-Autumn).

I am sure it is not, Ton.

Each of those is a small ball of hard water, hence only whitish, luckily no insulation balls gone with the wind.

No show there either?

This is the most whitish since last winter, so no show so far in the endless autumn.

How about yous?

So we have only had a light dusting in Düsseldorf..... and I so happy that it has not lasted.  Sure it is pretty... but I am so not a snow person any more.  I blame living in NYC.... it is pretty for an hour in the morning but as soon as the city starts buzzing it becomes one big grey glob of slush......

My dog however, loves running in snow as much as he does sand.  Me... not so much.

After a promise of up to 16 inches for many days, all we have are 1 inch and an immediate threat of thaw and noshowfall for days.

Proof prints:

That's enough fencing—let's discuss this seriously! Seriously, we've recently gone through the longest cold spell here in decades, but we're now in a melting phase that will be well over a week long before it's over.

And let it never be said that I ever used four or five words where sixty or seventy would do.

And thanks, Ton. My evening is now much improved.

Here is the yew from The Grotto in

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almost in full,

and the whole set of three (out of our four) different kinds of yews (and a mock orange to the left; further down to the left are (a fringe of) the largest cherry tree and a cherry laurel beside another (kind of) mock orange; to the right are maples (large) and elms (slender)), only today with less white stuff, no photoshopping, the only (faint) reflexions being in the slush ice,

At rather long last, and little.

By the way you can keep the snow... I do not want it.

After living in NYC for several years, the thought of walking through grey slush disturbs me.  Even here the middle of the Neanderthal in Germany, I do not like walking in snow!!!!  Yup... I live where they discovered the Neanderthal men and the area is called that.