Quick! Before it's Gone!

The schizophrenic winter of the midwest continues its bipolar lurch into a new month.
January gave us some snow, some rain, some ice, some cold, some record warmth, some clouds, lots of sun, and a general feeling that it was massively confused about its identity.
February is befuddled too and shows no sign of restoring equilibrium.

All of this means that when March comes roaring in it may find the lamb already firmly ensconced in the Upper Midwest, picking crocuses and planning picnics.
So before all trace of winter is gone I wanted to share a few photos from January that actually look like January.

Quick Bonny! Before it's gone!

Faux Winter

Winter in The Prude's town has lasted about 36 hours thus far.
We gotten some of this stuff scampering down:

which then 'covers' the ground with some temporary blotchiness

before melting into our perpetual March-mimicing vistas

The Prude is the first to admit she enjoys the relative warmth, the sun, the low heating bills, the safer roads.
But snow is pretty. Every so often she just wants to take a gander at it.
Till recently she had to be satisfied with observing photos of the Snows of Yesteryear:

But this year, The Prude has learned to cheat. Through a series of complicated steps she can take any photo and add snow to it.
She added it to this street light photo, taken on a clear, moonlit night:

She added it to her yard photo, taken on a bright, sunny day

and to the Christmas Parade, taken on a bright, moonlit evening

Without needing to lift a shovel or struggle into boots, she can enjoy softly falling snow anywhere, anytime.