Vicky - WOW.. talk about snow! I wish I could have some of that snow!! we're still so dry here in the city. The mountains have gotten hit pretty good, but dry dry dry here. We had horrific winds all weekend. Not so bad on my side of town.. I'm about 30-35 miles from the foothills, so we had stiff breezes. The foothills were having winds between 40-50mph steady & the mountains themselves had 80+ winds. Not gusts, but steady WINDS. They had to shut down I70 for a while because of the winds being so bad.. and that's a MAJOR artery through CO & the US itself. That woodpecker is so beautiful.. GORGEOUS shot! Seriously!!! Past week or so, I was hearing this loud jackhammer-like sound in my living room. Had NO idea what it was.. could NOT identify it at ALL. Finally, on Friday, I was outside & I heard it again.. it was some kind of.. woodpecker? flicker? something (the sun was directly behind the bird, so could not see it too clearly) standing on my chimney calling out, and then hammering on the metal top of my chimney! THAT'S what that sound was!! duhhhhh now I feel like a moron, but I hadn't heard it before. I think it's a red-crested flicker.. looks pretty close to what
The winds we had this weekend, plus the fact it was in the upper 50s to mid 60s all weekend REALLY cut through my snow in the front yard. I have very little left! Yay!! I was able to take a peek at my roses.. maybe, just maybe, I haven't lost as many as I though as, while I do have horrific winterkill, most that I saw was still had green down low. Yay!! But talk about a major pruning undertaking.. it's gonna take me days to prune everything down to get rid of the winterkill. I need more mulch. Bleh.
