Would you like some ice with your snow?

what a fun week.

After Monday's snowstorm we got almost 12" of snow. Tuesday morning our backyard looked like this:

so beautiful, so peaceful.

 

Then Tuesday night, we got hit with an ice storm.  Lost power around 4am Wednesday. Brian and I laid in bed, listening to tree branches breaking from the heavy snow and ice.

Before the ice- see those 2 pine trees on the left...

24 hours later, branches on the ground

bare trees, branches on the ground

our poor trees!

And a sign the world is ending- 100 little birds suddenly appearing out of nowhere to attack this holly bush. Such a weird sight.

Worried it might be days before we got power, I tried driving to Peggy's house to see if she had power (nice week to be on a cruise Peggy!). After an hour of driving, I was unable to get close to her house w/ all the downed trees.  Thankfully, we were lucky and our power was restored early Thursday morning.