Big wet plops of snow like dog licks on your face are falling with distressing density. The hoophouse requires multiple brushings to keep it on its feet. And someone told me it might snow over 16 inches! Oh noes!
But this is blessed moisture for spring. Providing we don't have a disastrously hot heat wave with a short drought as we had a few years ago, we should have a blossoming of plants we don't always see. Last year the plains got enough moisture that they were covered near the Pawnee Buttes area with evening primroses. The local news talked to some loquacious rancher who assured them the flowers were prairie roses. I was washing dishes at the time and didn't see the video, and was all agog to see these prairie roses that only bloom every few years! And then the next day I saw the video and saw that they were Oenothera caespitosa, which is the most common Evening Primrose around here. Sigh.
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