Your photo could be titled Snow Falling on Cedar Picnic Table. We only got about 5 inches here, somewhat north of you.

We have maybe 4 inches (mid-state CT) but there's more on the way. That pic is impressive!

From the comfort of the no-snow, mid-40s Midwest, that photo looks lovely!

My sympathies, from central NY with 10 inches of snowfall. I shoveled 3 separate times so it wouldn’t be as heavy and hard to do. Now the snow is letting up so I hope not to have to shovel again. I hope your snowfall is over soon too!

How pretty the tree looks! We expect our first 100F Summer day today!

bon, that's the view from my windows also! Snow still clinging to everything, so pretty. And more coming overnight...

The thing I worried about was that the electrical wires to the house were first encased with ice last night and now loaded with wet heavy snow. As I sat in the house this afternoon I noticed that the wires started bouncing on their own without wind. Not sure why but all I could imagine was them breaking or pulling away from the house. So I went out and found some branches and threw them up at the wires to shake them up and get rid of the snow on them. It worked ! Might be a silly thing to worry about but........being a worrier , it was a natural for me :0)) We live up in the woods so the electrical service has a ways to go to get to us.

yoyo, we get very little snow here, too far S W and right in the river valley of the Severn so your pic looks pretty but I'm of an age when I am glad not to be part of it!

We have made up for it with rain and more rain and, although it has now been dry for three whole days I think this has been the wettest Autumn since . . . the last wettest Autumn.

Also very few people over here live in woods/forests. Most of them were cut down hundreds of years ago and those that remain or have been replanted have strict rules/bylaws about building within them.

Apparently after Ireland the UK has the least trees of anywhere in Europe.

By contrast, we had about 41C/106F today...

Pity there isn't a happy medium for us all :-D

106 F ? I would perish. Being born and raised in the northeastern USA I am used to fairly moderate seasons. We have excessive humidity when temps go up since we are in a river valley. My DIL moved here from CA and TX and one of the first miseries she encountered was the concept of high humidity. Awful. My hairdresser cuts hair according to the season.....if it's summer the humidity changes everything for those of us with hair that has frizzy tendencies !

OMG! Being a Floridian I have only seen very small amounts of snow. We went to DC to visit my sister for New Year's 2018 and they had about 1/2" and we were freezing!

It's cold -well, for us - here, too (40s) but clear and sunny.

Colleen, do you have much humidity in Australia? Many times in the summer here the actual temp is mid 90s but humidity makes it feel 5-10 degrees hotter. We do get some actual summer temps over 100 but not too often.

Donna

Donna....40 feels like a nice heat wave to us during the winter months :0) This morning our temps were at 19 degrees but I suspect it'll be up in the 20's for the day. The best snow to shovel is when the temps are around 0 degrees because then is is lighter and easier to move. Once the temps rise the snow gets heavier and there is more damage to trees, wires and backs !

Speaking of OT.....here are hats I recently made for two of my crazy friends who actually requested them and wear them out and about !

Love the hats! What a cute and unique idea!

Donna

I've lived in snow country, years ago. I enjoyed the "novelty" of it when I was younger. Now, it would be just a nuisance. I'm not found of shoveling sidewalks. We are having an unusually cold and early winter for Charleston, SC. Several nights went down in the thirties, and days only in the forties. That is chilly for us. I don't mind that so much. It is the strong winds off our two rivers that make it hard to take an enjoyable walk!

woodnymph.....yes, you have to make the plow guy your new best friend !

That's a lot of snow!

And the hats are hysterical. I love them.

Donna, a lot depends on where you are and what time of year. In the north the summers are very hot and extremely humid, the season is called "The Wet" because there are frequent thunderstorms, some cyclones and flooding. Darwin has an almost daily thunderstorm the locals call "Hughie".

In the south where I am, it's sort of half dry heat days and half humid days. The humidity builds and builds until you think "Dear Lord, just rain and get it over with" and then it doesn't :-/. This is just summer settling in. It will go to 45C/113F or even a little more on many days before summer is over :-(

OT ..........I hate the term " ghosting".....and " pushback"

why must they reinvent our language and then suddenly it's viral

Yay! Hanging out the laundry when it's 111F outside- awesome! (not)

Colleen, to escape the heat, I'm bunkered in for the weekend with the A/C on full! I have books, DVDs and chocolate!

The Yanchep/Two Rocks area where we both lived is still burning. The old service station has gone. Ironically the house I once lived in was burned down some years ago in a domestic fire accident. I don't know if it was rebuilt.

I wouldn't have thought the area was a fire hazard. It wasn't in the seventies when it was being developed.

Yes, annpan, I saw the little servo was no more. I guess there's a lot of bush around there and once a bushfire gets going the embers can go a long way. Our aircon died yesterday, was working in fits and starts earlier today but no more =:-O

Colleen, oh, no! I hope you can get a replacement soon.

My last one died as the circuit board was eaten by ants. Some idiot had put the outside part of the unit on the ground! One good thing about renting is that the Retirement Village management pay for general maintenance and replacement. This time I insisted it was put on a bracket so I hope it has a longer life.

I have good memories of that servo. My young son could ride there legally by the back tracks on his off-road motor bike to shop for our groceries and bottled drinks.

We have been watching in horror the many bush fires, especially those round Sydney. There are many compensations for living in a damp country with a mild climate! AC is almost unknown . . .

Annpan and Colleen are you familiar with The Fortunate Life by A B Facey which I mentioned in the 'reading' thread? Nearly all of it is set in W Australia in general and Perth in particular.

Vee, I know of Facey as a local identity with a building named after him but I have never read the book. I rarely read non-fiction.

We definitely need a/c here. I have a split system one which blows hot or cold air, as contrary to my belief before I migrated, Australia gets cold in Winter! I keep it on around 65F usually when needed and sometimes I let it stay on all night when it is particularly hot.

I read “A Fortunate Life” decades ago when it first came out. It’s quite interesting.

We have reverse cycle aircon as well, as our pot belly stove died about the same time we were installing the aircon. I live 100km inland from Annpan and we don’t have the temperature regulating effect of being near the sea, so summers tend to be about 5 degrees hotter and winters about 5 degrees colder.

I can remember as a child in pre-aircon days, sleeping under damp sheets in summer :-)