April on the Pinnacle

So after 3 weeks of warm, dry April weather, the month goes out like a lion with 18'' of heavy, wet snow. By the time it ended, our yard looked something like this. The snow did not accumalate directly front of the house (foreground) because the running overflow from our well flows down the hill here (into our basement sump pump).

Here's a picture of one of our pear trees in bloom the day after. Most of the snow had melted by then, but it still makes for an unlikely picture. Fortunately, our trees did not suffer because the temperature never really got enough below freezing to damage the blossoms. I think we'll get pears this year.