Day 3.065: Snow end in sight

It has been a challenge I've set myself each year to try and catch the last snow in our yard. Of course, you can only be sure if you succeeded in retrospect.

Here is my current attempt (and I think I probably did well at catching the final moments). At the front, the last pile to melt has just revealed the rather sad looking remains of one of our Halloween pumpkins. At the back there is the merest smudge of icy snow sheltered by the house from any direct sunlight.

It marks the end of a season that started on December 5th 2009 - tomorrow will probably be the first snow-on-the-ground free day here since then - nearly three and a half months later - and that is after a season which seemed for the most part pathologically snow-falling-from-the-sky free.

Maybe it's time to get the 'Holiday' lights down from the front of the house now?