Baby it's cold outside

This post is especially for Patti and Corrine in Florida,
Randy and Dave in New Orleans,
and my Sis in North Carolina.
And any of my readers in warmer climates.

Winter came early,
and has taken a strong hold on Michigan.

The first pic is out the front window,
with the golf course across the street.

The second is our back yard.
If you click on the pic,
you'll see numerous branches
poking thru the snow.
They're from the wind we had last Sunday.
We had gusts up to 50 miles per hour.
We lost power for 7 hours.
But that was last weeks post.
The branches will probably lay there till spring. I don't do cold well.
And this last pic is a close-up of our Christmas tree. It's growing! See all the light green shoots! Stupid tree thinks it's Spring!


Craig thought we should pot it up and plant it back in the yard in the spring. Then we could cut it down again next year. Nice thought, but I told him tree stumps don't root. And I imagine as the shoots get longer, the tree won't be able to sustain the new growth, and the pretty green shoots will shrivel and die. But we enjoyed our little tree. And today the decorations come off, and the tree gets recycled into mulch for the yard. And as they say, life goes on.....