Winter seems to have such a stranglehold on the area this year. We haven't really even had a significant meltoff in over a month and a half, and they say January is the coldest we've seen in quite some time. It was below zero again this morning, even though yesterday it got up into the 20's and I was able to scrape the inch of ice off of most of the driveway finally.
Rabbit damage is terrible - some things will be chewed down to the ground. The 
little Weigala that is planted near the gazebo is just a couple of stems now - now sure how long that will take to come back. Seems like we will have to start putting more protection in place in the late fall from now on if there's going to be this much snow every year.
The rabbit and squirrel "highways" are deepening, since we haven't gotten a lot of new snow in the last several weeks. You can really see their routes.
I also found a bit of the nesting material that had fallen from a squirrel nest that's up in the willow tree. I imagine they will manage to stay warm anyway - probably will cut more stuff from my plants.
Wednesday night I heard the sump pump downstairs run for the first time in quite 
awhile, and I feared that it wouldn't make it out to the creek. But yesterday I walked over to the outlet and found that it was, indeed, still open. That will be good if ever things really do start to melt. And since I was out, I took a few more shots of things that are still beautiful The colors are a bit monotonous this time of year, but some form and structure still survives. 
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