There we were minding our own business having a little walk up on the top of the second ridge when fat snowflakes started to fall. Walking across all that emerald grass while the air filled with fluff was like being in a pillow fight with Mama Nature.
Then the wind kicked up and blew the daffodils around. The snow streaked sideways.
Heck with it. We went home. The snow went wherever snow goes in April. The wind blew some more. We had dinner followed by a show.
I tell you, sometimes that brat Mama Nature makes up for it.
Posted in: Adventures outdoors, Up North in Michigan
Torch Lake Views 
Nye
April 10, 2012
I’m glad the snow didn’t last very long, and the sunset at the beach is beautiful. I hope we get to visit the beach this Summer.
Gerry
April 10, 2012
I’ll bet you do get to the beach. You have a way of making things happen. I want to see Lee levitate over the waves!
shoreacres
April 11, 2012
Snow and daffodils – reminds me of our famous snowed-in Easter tulips, years ago. The stuff was all the way up to the blossoms, which looked like they were perched on top of the snow. (I may have told you that, but if I did, apologies. It’s a wonderful memory.)
The best ever was a photo taken by a friend in Montana of the purple lilacs on his ranch, covered with snow. Better you should have a few flakes than all that.
You know that first sunset is approaching Turner or Constable-esque status, right? Just beautiful.
Gerry
April 11, 2012
I can just see tulips atop the drifts, fragile cups set out for a tea party. If it had kept snowing I was planning to go get pictures of the cowslips. I’m just as glad it quit, even though it was working up to becoming my favorite kind of snow.
Martha
April 11, 2012
I watched some almost invisible bits of snow streak past the greenhouse door yesterday as someone yelled “It’s SNOWING!” and we all thought- Well, it’s spring. Then it was over and just gray and cold and miserable. No lovely sunset like yours. I see the sunrise from my house, but not the setting. I’m OK with that. Fair enough. Your dogs are so darn cute. I miss having dogs. But….two cats are enough now. Heck, one of my cats is bigger than either of your dogs.
Gerry
April 11, 2012
Eastward windows are a good thing too. The dogs are delighted to be thought darn cute. It confirms their own opinions on the matter. Miss Puss would like to learn more about your bobcat.
cherries4health
April 11, 2012
Sounds like a scene from ‘The Wizard of Oz’ “And the wind began to switch….” Hhahah You got some beautiful pictures of it.
Gerry
April 11, 2012
Thanks Rose. I was thinking it was a little like Oz.
Fee
April 11, 2012
We had some fast moving snow here, yesterday, as well. Which we don’t normally get in April, but, thank goodness, it didn’t settle. Then, we had monsoon-style rain, then a brief sunny spell, then some hailstones. Such is life in Scotland. If you don’t like the weather, just wait a couple of hours!
Gerry
April 11, 2012
‘Morning, Fee. That sounds exactly like Michigan. Must be why so many Scots settled here. “Just like home,” they said to themselves, “except the English are at the northern border and appear to be peaceful. At the moment.” Did I ever mention that there are Scots in my family tree as well as Swedes? Well there are. They settled in Ohio, though, which made them grumpy.
Fee
April 11, 2012
Well, if they were highlanders, yes, they’d be grumpy in Ohio (it must have looked as different as the surface of the moon) but if they were lowlanders, then they were grumpy when they arrived! On my dad’s side, we’re highlanders, but on mum’s side, lowlanders. So, half crazy warrior, half Borders cattle thief – which kind of explains a lot.
Gerry
April 12, 2012
Fee, I have decided that in addition to Scottish lessons I need to read some Scottish history. I would be grateful for any suggestions for a good general history to serve as an introduction. (I did find The History of Scotland by William Robertson, 1835, on Google books and it is remarkably entertaining. I probably need to find something a bit more recent . . . )
tootlepedal
April 11, 2012
Scots grumpy? That’s hard to berleive. Nice sunsets.
Gerry
April 11, 2012
Thank you. It was just one sunset, showing off. As for the grumpy Scots, it is entirely possible that they were cast out of the highlands for their bad attitude. I’ve always assumed it was living in Ohio that made them that way. Must rethink.
Anna Surface
April 11, 2012
Oh wow! What lovely photos these are! Snow?! The photo with the old fence, dafodilles and snow is so pretty! I just love the 2nd to last photo… ahhhh! Mother Nature playing with you. 🙂
Gerry
April 11, 2012
Thank you Anna. Playing with us the way a cat plays with a mouse I think.
Dawn
April 11, 2012
Oh man, I’m having serious Great Lake withdrawal….these are just beautiful…thought the red barn, daffodils and snow was spectacular until I got to that beach shot, until I got to that full on lake shot…sigh….
Gerry
April 11, 2012
Clearly time for a Weekend Up North – or a day at Point Pelee. I’m glad you enjoyed the photos. Thank you.
shoreacres
April 11, 2012
Sometimes i can’t settle down to my chores, so I do some playing. Here you go. Not better, just different! I’m falling under Anna’s influence, I think. 😉
Gerry
April 11, 2012
Cool frame. The Cowboy loves being on canvas. Miss Sadie is concerned that it makes her look fat.
Giiid
April 12, 2012
Beautiful photos! I love that red light and a sky like this. The photo with the sundown reflecting in the water is also very appealing. I imagine I would have filled a whole SD card, if I had been there. Perhaps you did too? I won´t blame you for showing the rest the next couple of months then, one can´t get too many beautiful red sundowns.
Gerry
April 12, 2012
Thank you very much. I did take a lot of pictures, but most of them were pretty bad. Maybe this summer I’ll study the subject of capturing sunsets!
Giiid
April 12, 2012
I tried yesterday evening without any luck, no matter which button I turned, the camera was convinced that it should help me making it all look like daytime. Perhaps we should ask Scott for a lesson.
Gerry
April 12, 2012
Ah! While you were out gallivanting in the wide world and building a new website and a new My Daily Denmark blog I won a drawing Scott held. The prize was a lovely book, Brenda Tharp’s Creative Nature & Outdoor Photography. She has an extended essay on light in there. I will tell you if I manage to apply the lessons. 🙂
Giiid
April 12, 2012
I know that you won the book, and congratulated you at Scotts blog,- but you haven´t seen that, so I´ll do it again. If there is some good and simple advice’s, I´m ready to try them. Just the easy ones, I am probably as impatient a student as I imagine you are.
Gerry
April 12, 2012
You understand me very well indeed. I will undertake to find things that we might actually have the patience to try!
Belinda
April 12, 2012
What an absolutely gorgeous sunset! I wish I had a picture of it hanging over my couch.
Gerry
April 12, 2012
Thank you Belinda. If you got one of those really big monitors and hung it over the couch . . . Nah. The advantage of having the picture here is that you don’t have to dust it.
Scott Thomas Photography
April 13, 2012
The time of year as Winter tries to hold on and Spring keeps aserting itself is full of fun days like this. Hopefully, it will get all sorted about by May.
Gerry
April 13, 2012
Today it’s looking pretty good for April, too – although I did wear my down coat to take the dogs out this morning.