As forecast, the snow started last evening and it continued through the night so that St Patrick's Day dawned here with around six inches of snow on the ground. It had come down as large wet flakes but then frozen during the night so that it was stuck fast to every surface, vertical or horizontal and remained throughout the day.
I hope that the crocus flowers are resilient as they are under here..
David set to work early this morning clearing the drive..
..or was he in fact auditioning for Strictly with a rather slender partner?
It carried on snowing during the morning and as it got a little warmer the icicles just grew and grew. By this evening they were approaching two feet in length..
In terms of St Patrick's Day itself, the build up to this day in the shops has been quite long with a variety of items on offer..
These cards and party goods were on sale weeks ago..
In addition there have been cookies and cakes..
In Wegman's last week they were selling the ingredients for a traditional (Irish American) St Patrick's Day meal - joints of corned beef (I have only ever seen this in a tin but these were large pieces of beef brisket which had been cured in salt and sugar), together with cabbage - to be cooked sauerkraut style - and potatoes - to be mashed.
The American Good Housekeeping magazine had ten different ideas for celebratory door wreaths of which I chose this one to share..
Happy St Patrick's Day!
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