Here are a couple more pictures from last weekend (I mean weekend of Dec. 8/9) in Maine. We were in Newton this weekend because of dire weather predictions — a severe weather alert for southwestern Maine that said “cancel travel plans for Sunday.” And indeed, we had a good winter storm in the Boston area today that started with a good six inches of snow and turned into snow pellets, sleet, and rain later. It can only have been more snow farther north, and I was very glad not to be driving through it — and even more than that, glad not to have to shovel out the driveway after getting back.
But anyway, last weekend we walked around our trail and saw, besides some snowshoe hare tracks in the snow, a maple tree that I had marked as such with an eraser-carving-printed plaque:
and a snow-covered Sleeping Rhino:
