Easter weekend we saw 2+ inches of snow in the mountains around Asheville.
We rented a house for the weekend to visit with my parents,
grandparents and aunt, uncle & cousins (thankfully the house had 5
bedrooms and 3 bathrooms!). We expected it to be cool/cold... but not
like this!
We arrived on a nice sunny Friday afternoon - ahhh spring!
Rock wall and happy green plants
Mom & Dad (with nice green trees in the background)
Friday night: Hmmm, did they predict flurries? Eh, might as well enjoy the spa anyway!
Saturday morning... we woke up to this... is the ground (and SUPER STEEP road) covered in snow!?!?!?!!?
The Blue Ridge Parkway and Craggy Gardens are just over that way - and it just wouldn't stop snowing!
Rocks all covered in snow - poor green plants ain't looking so spring-y
Icicle on the house
Then this past weekend, we had some nice strong storms blow through. Well,
actually, they're still blowing through (just the CRAZY wind, not rain). I saw no
less than a dozen HUGE hardwood trees blown over on my way home this afternoon. Thanks to 2.5 inches of rain and gusts of wind at 50mph+, beautiful old trees have fallen.
Here's what we saw on Sunday afternoon -
After hearing a distict sound the following rang out in our house, "HAIL! HAIL! HAIL! Move the recently purchased plants - we can't afford to lose the $50+ worth of tomato plants to HAIL!!!" Ok, so, maybe we were insane b/c with hail came some pretty impressive lightning. Thankfully, Paul is brave and insane, so the plants (and he) are ok.
Several minutes AFTER the hail had fallen (I was too busy freaking out while Paul was outside saving plants to take a photo AS the hail was falling)
Detail (some good nickel sized pieces, thankfully most were just pea sized)
Backyard - big, fat pond middle right (cloudy water) and the recently saved new plants on the patio under the table (if you look real close, you can see the newly planted willow tree almost completely bent over in the wind)
Storm clouds lurking....
BUT, we did get some nice spring flowers... the blooming pinkie hawthorn
2 comments:
Those were some crazy storms! We had them this weekend too, a lady at John's work was killed when a tornado ripped apart her trailer. Crazy crazy spring weather!!!
Love the snow pictures though, too fun!!
Have a great day! :)
Jen
See, the south is crazy
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