That is a metal head of a season lady. I forget what you call them. I had a book as a child that had pictures for woman representing Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. She has grapes for hair. I wired her on a Linden tree that was dying. For a while I thought of carving the tree but it was too hard and required skill. You have a good camera like Glenda; I can't get that close to birds. You got the texture of the snow. The area around my bird feeder is nasty and would not look good if I could get a picture. I am on my last bag of sunflowers seeds. They have gone through lots of seed and suet.

peren.all - Our Cole is not fond of cold (or wet!) The two other dogs in the picture of three of them in the snow belong to friends who are vacationing somewhere warm :-) Their Boston Terrier definitely doesn't like cold - the breed has no undercoat so easily get cold. The big collie-mix doesn't mind the cold but likes another dog to play with - and neither Cole nor the Boston terrier are particularly interested in playing in the snow! Our previous dog was a Lhasa Apso and she LOVED the snow! We nicknamed her Little Miss Himalaya :-) This is a picture of her playing in the snow with her Briard buddy - both, sadly, are dead now. No snow here now - very sunny out there at the moment. Most of the snow was gone by Saturday afternoon and everybody was out raking leaves.....

"gardengal, are you concerned about damage to some of your plants?" Yeah......the houseplants that are still hanging around outside my front door!! To be honest, it was 60F a couple of days ago and hasn't dropped below 40F at night. It's just been too wet and yucky recently to spend much time outdoors so I put it off. But that's all changing!! All the houseplants are now safe and warm indoors. Everything else will just have to fend for itself. Most have already wintered an Arctic blast in the high teens in a previous garden and my current location has an even milder microclimate. I'm not too worried. But I guess my nasturtiums will finally stop blooming 🤔

A couple more the morning right after the snow. Picea Meyeri: Pine grove: Containing P. resinosa, P. Strobus and P. Ponderosa. Picea glauca (left), Pinus Strobus (right), Picea Mariana (Small spruce in center) and Pinus resinosa (back left). You can see the (yellow) L. laricina (back right) and some of J. virginiana just to the left and in front of the larch. :-)