Snow At Last #ThursdayTreeLove

"The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination" - Terri Guillemets. 

I know readers of Parul's #ThursdayTreeLove have been waiting for photos of trees covered in snow since a number of participants live in climes where snow is not part of their winters.

Sunday and Monday, we finally got enough of a snowstorm to make it happen.

Doesn't it look like a winter wonderland?  These pictures were taken Monday.

These pictures look like they were taken in black and white.  I assure you, they were not.

A birds-eye view of a backyard.

Here's a closeup of the snow.  It was heavy and clumpy.  I'm grateful I didn't have to shovel it.

Trees share their beauty with us all year long.  Where I live, many trees bloom in the spring.  In summer, they provide shade and cover for birds and animals.  In fall, many of our trees sense the decreasing daylight, their signal to go into winter hibernation. Before their leaves fall, the leaves shed their green and show their true colors - yellow, rust, red.  The leaves, once on the ground, compost and enrich the soil.  The mulch they create also protects the roots of perennial plants.

In winter, they provide places for birds and squirrels to store food.  Squirrels build nests in trees as year round homes.

These trees may seem to be fast asleep but, in reality, amazing things are happening beneath the surface to allow those trees to survive winter.

Nature is amazing.

Meanwhile, as of today, the snow is almost all gone. Our up and down winter continues.

Joining Parul at Happiness and Food this second Thursday of January for #ThursdayTreeLove.