Winters Fashionably Late Arrival

Snowfall from 1/12/19

Winter finally arrived this weekend with a blanket of about 4.5" of snow. Honestly its about time we saw a more than the tiny dusting snowfalls we have been getting so far. I was starting to think we were going to have to prove to the rest of the world proof of Des Moines heartland location. Proving that was going to be getting increasingly difficult with my photos of brown grass and flowers in January and continual temperatures in the 50s to near 60.

Winter Garden 1/13/19

Well, we traded in all that glorious mid winter weather for snow as the sun rose today greeting the new landscape. There is a certain beauty and freshness to the air that a snowfall like this only seems to bring, how ever you think of it certainly brings a new view on things. Also on another note has anyone notice how much brighter it is at night now? I was just talking to my mom about how the snowcover makes night much brighter, a feature of city lights shining against the snowcover that this snowfall reminded me of.

Rusty the T-Rex

I don't think I explained my blogs cover photo just yet and I guess its about time I did. Well this is Rusty the T-Rex! He is a metal art piece which lives in my prairie garden the material he's made out of explains the name. Rusty is just one of many dinosaurs that reside across my yard and garden and yes he's wearing a scarf I made from recycled cloth, a dinos gotta keep warm in an Iowa winter!  I never really used to be into garden art, but now I feel like I have been missing out because they add so much to a garden especially in winter. My interest in garden art arrived at the same time I started gaining an interest in Dinosaurs which oddly came way after adulthood, I don't really know where it came from I guess I just their they are a cool unique aspect to the garden.