March in the Mountains

This past week has been quite interesting, temperatures in the 70's down in the city, upper 50's at altitude, been able to drive home with the top down three days in a row, the envy of all my east coast friends. Now the weather hasn't been perfect mind you, those warm temperatures came with 50-70 mph winds, a little fire up here in the mountains and a big fire down on the Army post.

Today was a little cooler and this evening it snowed, so I guess that quite possibly we are back to looking forward to spring sometime in May... and the news today announced that the front range (where the mountains meet the plains for those of you unfamiliar with our terrain), is in a 'moderate-drought', not something to look forward to after years of severe drought. It's been an odd year with very little snow, although the western slope and ski resorts are doing fine. I can actually see most of my driveway right now... the earliest that has occurred in six winters now. Even the lake is starting to melt off around the edges.

Cheers!

~Finntann~