Spring in MinneSNOWta ....

I am not certain if this is a post or a weather report or a whining session -- perhaps, a bit of all three. I will leave that for the reader/viewer to determine. Most of Minnesota is locked into what I would call an "old-fashioned blizzard." It began Friday with rain, then turned to freezing rain, then turned to ice/snow pellets, then, finally, to snow. Snow will continue to fall until around mid-afternoon on Sunday. My immediate area had received about ten inches of new-fallen snow by five o'clock Saturday afternoon, and isolated pockets are expected to receive as much as two feet before the system moves on eastward. As it stands right now, the first fourteen days of April are the coldest on record for the month and it is the fifth snowiest April ever .... it might well be No. 1 when this storm ends. The top photograph was taken through my open garage door looking down the street and the bottom photograph through my open patio door viewing a portion of the back yard. By the way, I am an old-fashioned kind of guy .... I still shovel the snow from my driveway and for a few paths for Buddy ....