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  • Gardens Before and After
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  • A 2020 Garden
  • What the Deer Don't Eat!
  • The Elusive Pruners
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  • Spring 2019
  • Whites Revisited
  • Oh, Deer!
  • Winter 2016/ 17 ~ Outdoors
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  • Spring Is Here (2016)
  • Some Lesser Known Gems
  • Summer of 2015
  • Blizzard of 2015
  • Winter 2015 Begins!
  • August 2014
  • Looking Backward and Forward (November 2013)
  • Daylily Season Begins!
  • Need Some Architectural Interest?
  • Summer at Last!
  • Old Man Winter 2014
  • Blooms and Berries
  • Behind the Scenes
  • Sedums for a burst of color
  • September Container Gardens!
  • July 2013
  • February Blizzard 2013
  • Winter Has Arrived (December 2012)
  • Favorite Long Island Gardens
  • Fall Doldrums & Debacles - Hurricane Sandy 10/12
  • Wonderful Whites
  • A Day In The Dirt
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly!
  • Hostas Never Let You Down...
  • Luscious Liliums
  • What's Blooming (July 2012)!
  • Spring is on its way!
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Blizzard of February 2013

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Well, the blizzard has moved northward, but it left 2' of snow on our property.  I guess the garden finally has its protective blanket or more like a deluxe goose down comforter! I ventured out to take some pictures this morning, but I got soaked as the snow was over my knees!  I can't seem to get warm again. I walked the whole way down our 400' driveway to check on how many trees might be blocking the way for a plow (if I can find one that's available).  There are many huge cedar limbs broken off, but the driveway has mostly branches weighted down so heavily with snow that they arch over the drive and reach the ground.  We'll have to try to get the snow off them. We had an 12' arborvitae fall down across the walkway going to the house.  We'll need to get out the chainsaw for that one. Time to put on another layer and drink something hot!
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Our driveway (Click on photo to see a larger image)
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I put a sign on my mailbox in an effort to attract a snowplow! (Click on photo to see a larger image)
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Our house (Click on photo to see a larger image)
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The "Office House" (Click on photo to see a larger image)

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
  -J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley

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