Along with very cold temperatures....

a few inches of snow came to our area this past weekend.

The birds always cluster around the back porch when it snows....

expecting seed to be placed there as well....as at the feeders!

The deer came to the bird feeders as soon as it started to snow...

to just eat the fallen seeds on the ground or stretch for even more.

They come often and stare at me as I take photos from the window....

....snow or no snow!

This was our first real snowfall of the winter....woke the next day to two inches or so and a heart shape on the patio!

So I took my first 'snow covered field walk' of the winter.

Weather changes the scene....this was the view two weeks ago.

The snow presented a few special images on these two stumps....

A small heart was on top of the tallest and a little pig on the smallest!

An old camper top in the field had it's windows dressed in crystals!

The first shows a reflection of one window in the other....

and what looks like a pale moon in the sky.

But that pale moon was actually the sun....paled by very thick clouds.

By the time I returned home....the sun grew brighter!

The birds were waiting for their seeds, suet, peanuts, and dried mealworms.

They feasted.... 

....while I went inside to make biscuits!

....I made some crisp & thin and others crisp but big! We like them both ways.

Also made scalloped potatoes with spinach, gr. onions and celery. 

German Chocolate Cake was on the menu too!

Last week I baked whole wheat bread using molasses which turned out good. A delicious broccoli cheese bread recipe I got from Lois @ From Lois' Hands makes wonderful sandwiches...plain and grilled.

Here's some other meals eaten during these last days of winter!

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Today is Valentine's Day...I will be eating chocolate of some kind....

...and thinking of Spring!

 

 

~ ♥ Wanda ♥ ~