A Winter Wonderland

[Wild Skies]

Recently here in Wisconsin we had a good old fashioned Winter storm move through. It started with over a quarter inch of freezing rain which coated and stuck to everything, immediately followed by a drop in temps changing the freezing rain over to about 7 1/2" of wet heavy snow. The storm left us scenery with what could be described as breathtakingly beautiful -- everywhere. It's a Winter Wonderland around here right now and with the below zero temps predicted over the coming week, it'll be here for awhile. Even the deer can't get enough of it!

In the attached pic of our backyard you can see how the weight of the ice and snow has bent over a couple of white birch trees to the point that their tops are touching the ground.