The snow piled higher and higher

 The lantern in the Japanese/Moss garden.  Shooting from the window under the deck.  I have recently found the name of the plant with the big leaves.  I believe it is the castor oil plant, although it does not have red leaves and I have never seen it bloom.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricinus  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricinus

 Railings on the 12th piled higher with snow.

 A closer look at the fluffy, wet snow piled on the deck railing. 
 The bird bath with at least a foot of snow piled up on it.  Beside it the basil plant had gone to seed and I left it in its pot.  I wonder if any of the seed will germinate. 

 More of the chairs, table and deck piled with snow.  I had cleaned the snow off the bin by the deck door and was putting out the humming bird feeder on it in the morning.  Wish I had taken a photo of it.

 The icicle out the dining room window at its maximum size.  It grew from the melt and repeated freeze.

            The bushes and the power line across the street.

 The david is heaped with snow.  The bamboo is weighted down to the ground  with all the snow on it.

More of the snow piled on the deck railing and the bay laurel behind it.

The bird bath on the deck heaped with at least a foot of  snow.  The basil next to it had gone to seed.  I wonder if any of the seed will germinate.  

The big snow of February continued

 The snow kept falling over the next 2 or 3 days.  It was just above freezing to make the snow wet from slight melting.  When there was any wind it caused damage to trees and power lines.  There were quite a few people without power.  The children had a snow day or two, and so did some of the working people.  The above is the snow on the deck stairs on the 10th.

 The moss garden under the first blanket of snow.

 the seedheads of a perennial plant at the pond edge covered in snow.  Behind this snow you can see the waterfall running.  The running waterfall keeps a open space on the top of the pond for oxygen exchange in the pond.

 on the 10th the snow piled up on the easterly side of the telephone pole.  The next day the snow was on the opposite side of the post.  I guess that the direction of the wind caused this interesting occurrence. 

 The back deck railings piled with snow with the woodland in the background.  

 An overview of the front garden, shooting out the front window of course.  The hedges became loaded with heavy wet snow.  They have recovered now, though, thank heavens.

 A view of the park trail through the front tree, that is loaded with snow also.

 The david with hat and scarf.   The bamboo is strategically bending in the snow to frame the david.

 This icicle formed in the melt from the roof and continued for a few days.

 More snow fell on the 11th piling up everywhere.

The table and chairs on the deck.  I think we must have had at least a foot of snow... chairsfull of it. 

The pots and the light on the deck with even more snow falling.
You can see why a great snowfall is such an event for me.  The shadows and highlights of all the white create some very interesting photos.

The big snow of February

 A closer view of the David with the bamboo beginning to be weighted down with snow on February 10th.

 The david and some of the front garden on February 10th.

 The peony tree seed heads loaded with snow on February 10th.

 The icicle hanging off the eaves at the front shooting out the dining room window, on February 10th

 February 10th.  The snow is beginning to pile up. I like how this view of the woodland turned out.

 An overview of the front garden on February 8th, shooting out the front window.

 February 8, with a bit more snow.  The deck with the background woodland.

 More of the pond on February 3 with a bit of ice on the surface.  The waterfall keeps an area of the pond surface open to oxygen exchange.

The snow started to fall on February 3.  Showing the waterfall and  pond.
Much more snow photos to come.  We seldom get this much snow.  Temperatures were just at the freezing mark over night and slightly higher during the day.