Tuesday March 6 2012
A biting Arctic storm roars through Owyhee under the cloak of night, rattling houses and barns and shaking beasts who have already started shedding their winter coats.
Capricious gales scour the earth bare and pile the snow deep. They drive ice crystals with the force of stinging needles. The ice clings like white blankets, to the topside and backside of horses, and vertically to the windward side of tree trunks.
By noon the storm has fled, chased by sharp blue skies, leaving a desert world in black and white, buried and bare.
The Owyhee mountains are polished to a shiny icy silver sheen. The world awaits Mother Nature's next whim.
So pretty! I bet this is it and then a green, green spring. Going to be amazing there!
ReplyDeleteVery nice!
ReplyDeleteLove these photos!! Our weather is sooooo WEIRD!!
ReplyDeleteIt makes me hurt just looking at the poor guys! I've been out in weather like that and its not fun. Here's hoping that they get some warm sun soon.
ReplyDeleteNow, I am shivering....just looking at those pictures chills me to the bone.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how the horses adjust to all the extremes we've had this winter. Today, here in NJ, it was warm and sunny. Tomorrow even more so--close to 70. Crazy winter!
Oh my gosh, looks like Montana! Hope everyone weathered through ok!
ReplyDeleteMother nature to all the Idahoans who think spring came on Monday: "Just kidding!"
ReplyDeleteWinter made a late arrival there. We have temps in the 60's this week.
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