Anyone need some snow?

We have plenty. Alas, yesterday was not officially a blizzard, and the airport only reported about 10 inches. We, however, have definitely had more snow than that, and it is snowing again, after a sunny, snow-free morning. This picture is the sidewalk, looking right (west) from our driveway. No, we didn't have to shovel all that - there is a sidewalk plow that comes by early in the morning to do that. Of course, as you can see, it leaves a ridge of snow to either side, which we do have to shovel out of the walk.

We took advantage of the break in the weather to attempt shovel the walk and the driveway. The walk posed no problems, but the driveway was another story. Not only was there a ridge from the sidewalk plow, but there was also one from the regular street plow too. That snow, instead of being light and fluffy, is heavy, and wet, and crusty. We were struggling valiantly with it (another problem, we only have one snow shovel so I was trying to use a regular shovel) when an older neighbor came by and said "I'm surprised you weren't out here last night shoveling" and after acting all smug about the amount of work we had left, offered to bring over his snow blower and help out. Ordinarily, I would prefer to do my work without the use of power tools, but it was a big pile of slush snow, and we'd already been at it for some time. He had the whole thing uncovered in about 10 minutes. You can see the large piles on either side of the driveway, and across the street. Now, several hours later, the driveway is fully visible. Or it was, before it started snowing rather heavily...

The birds seem unaffected by the snow. I spotted the woodpecker, towhees, and cardinal out at the feeder. One of these days I may manage to get a picture of the cardinal in the snow. And I promise, unless we have another foot or two of snow tonight, that I will not mention snow or shoveling!