Beautiful! It's just cold here today - no snow.

No snow here in west central Indiana. It can stay away as far as I'm concerned.

Nancy

We get some snow in Alabama every few years, but usually a couple of inches. It is still snaowing and has been for the last eight house. We very rarely...say every seven or eight years if that often get more then a dusting and I believe this is quite a bit more than we have gotten since we have been in this house...twenty years. It was supposed to be an inch or an inch and a half. We got quite a bit more than that. The beauty of it is we don't have to shovel, and it will be gone in a couple of days.

kay

Kay, I was wondering if you got into the snow flow!! I am too far north to see any here. (Doesn' that sound strange?) All is south of me. Just very cold-again, a relative term for us Southerners-high 30's today.

Kate

Boy, I really don't like that stuff. Where I live in Oklahoma we are just as apt to get ice as snow. So much damage from the ice storms we've had in the past. So far, knock on wood, we've had neither. It did get down to 18 degrees last night. Since all my daylilies still have green foliage it must have been a surprise to them. Hope everyone stays safe this winter.........Maryl

Kate, we had snow for eleven hours. We wound up with six inches in our yard, and larger amounts on higher surfaces. It had been pretty warm during the previous week, so the ground was warm and had to be chilled before it really would stick well. It managed it though. Maryl we very rarely get snow this far south, and as you say, when we do get "wintry precipitation" it is likely to be ice. This was the perfect snow to build a snowman, and we had plenty in the yard...it wasn't happening here though. My Chihuahua was fascinated with it and kept sniffing it them running aroun and around. Then, it became too deep unless she was running in someone's footsteps. This is Alabama, though. Most of it will melt tomorrow. Best way to have it. Here, gone, shoveling not necessary.

kay

Beautiful scenes! We got maybe an inch of snow here today, and more snow is in the forecast for tomorrow morning.

Lori

Snow on mine too!

All the relatives in south Texas received snow as did friend in northeastern Alabama. All are surprised that we had nothing since we are so much farther north, and we would have welcomed it because of the drought, but no such luck.

Sorry, Avedon drought is a monster! Lori, I suspect you get a good bit of snow but for us it is a rarity. Funny to see snow on them, isn't it bossyvossy? We got enough that they were just little hills of snow at the end....5 inches on the yardstick. But it is supposed to be 43 today and it will start leaving us quickly which is fine too.

kay

No snow here yet, although they are predicting flurries around noon. Not supposed to amount to anything. The snow looks pretty though, especially with the roses peeking through.

Kay, isn't it funny how these fronts work? Jackson, MS, two and a half hours south of me reportedly received five inches! I did not get the first flake. I remember when I was teaching in south Mississippi, one year we got some snowfall-not much-maybe an inch-and my students went wild! For many of them, it was the first snow they had ever seen. Needless to say, not much teaching going on that day-which was fine-sometimes the best teaching is just learning to have fun and enjoy nature!! What about your daffodil bud? Did it ever bloom?

Kate

Nancy, ours was supposed to be a dusting...5 inches dusted pretty well. It is always a delight if we get a snow since they are not common here. Kate, it is ndeed funny. No, it sits there wth its little buds ready to open and the snow doesn't seem to have hurt it at all. The beauty of snow here is that it rapidly disappears. Yestrday was a winter wonderland. Right now, the sun is out, it is mid-forties, and the snow is rapidly melting everywhere.

kay

When we're in for a very cold stretch, I welcome snow as an insulation.

Glad to see your pics, Kay, but I must admit I am amused by the flood of Facebook pictures from some Southerners with just a few inches on the ground. The last few years we haven't had much snow. The winter of 2013-14 was very cold without much snow--with lots of damage to plants. This was from March 2015 on our block:

Ah but you get snow regularly Mantis. I have not had over a dusting of snow in the twenty years I have lived int his house. Five inches is a big deal to the snow hungry. Glad you were amused.

kay

We had that big snow too, Mantis. Not much damage in little Wilmore, but Lexington KY, 20 minutes drive north, was terrible. Also, our town is awesome at clearing roads. Often our roads are completely clean by mid to late morning.

Central KY, being right on the weather border between North and South, gets lots of snow some years, just rain some years, and ice others. Looking to be possibly snowy this year as it is quite cold, though that could change.

Right now we have about 1/2 to 1 inch. The roads in Wilmore are clear, but I've heard of accidents in Lexington, though they could be to dumb drivers. So many people try to drive and stop at normal speeds when it snows.

Your pictures are very nice Kay!

It is snowing here now but that is not news. I live in New Hampshire. But I am amazed at Kay and others in southern states getting snow. I have lived in NH for all of my adult life but I was born and raised in south Georgia on the ocean. I lived there till I was 14 and I remember only once us having accumulating snowfall. It only amounted to about an inch but my brothers and I were so delighted with it we tried to make a snowman and it looked like a porcupine with all the pine needles sticking out....lol. It wasn't enough snow to hold together but we tried! We even put a snowball in the freezer to save the snow before it melted. I was so enchanted with the white stuff that day. I laugh about it now, after over 43 winters up here in snow country.

Brad, it would be silly for our people to spend the money on snowplows when we might get a snow every couple of year somewhere in the state....but having frequent snows makes it a necessity, of course. And Celeste, the Facebook pages here are full f snow pictures because it is a big deal when it snows here., since it is rare. Being this close to Christmas just made it seem a happier event. And this even was good snoball and snowman snow....not the dry powder that won't stick together. About 85% of it melted today which is also nice.

kay

Wow, Kay! Six inches is a lot for your part of the country.

Yes it is, Debra! North Alabama gets some snow most years, but my area? Nada...maybe a dusting. Of course, being Alabama, most of it was gone by midday yesterday/. Some more protected patches (sun doesn't hi so much) remain, but very little. It was beatiful, fun and very nice but mostly gone and that is nice too.

kay

Kay: Did you have any semi tropical plants still outside? I know a lot of people try and push the zones (present company not excepted) and weather like this makes fools of us all.......It's back in the low 60's here for the next few days which suites me just fine, as it was time to water my pots outside..........Maryl

I have a plant called Duranta repens, sometimes called Brazilian Skyflower, Maryl. It has been in my garden for several years and dies to the ground each winter here. It emerges in late spring and is up and blooming all summer until the hard freezes start. It would make a small tree in Florida, but here it just has the one year's growth on it. Of course, Amaryllis are also very good to grow in the ground and bloom every year, and I have one potted plant, Russelia Equisetiformis (Firecracker Plant) that is in my greenhouse. That is all I have though.

Come to think of it, I went through a bit more of a tropical plant phase at one time. I had several coffee plants and a beautiful Stephanotis that I has raised from a twig. It had grown to about eight feet and was in bloom when a gardening disaster struck. We had a freaky cold storm to blow in. It blew out the window in the greenhouse and the heater chose that time to quit working. everything in the greenhouse that the cold would kill died. It severely hurt a huge Aloe plant I had and killed the coffee plants and the Stephanotis. What can you do? That is gardening.

kay

Kay: I'm familiar with the Duranta group of plants as I've grown Duranta Erecta "Cuban Gold" off and on for years. Even in a mild winter - say an 8a ish - it always succumbs to winter. Could be that our horrible drainage doesn't help it either. I've seen the D. Repens around once or twice, but Tulsa doesn't have many nurseries that carry anything much over the normal mart plants. I've grown Russellia before a long time ago too. ........So sorry to hear about your Greenhouse mishap. What a shame. Did you ever get any coffee beans off of your coffee plant?............Maryl