merry christmas! this is joe joe when he was a pup in 2000. garden fool will be on vacation until next year, so happy new year!

my dear joe joe suffered bloat over the weekend, had surgery, and now seems just fine. whew.

our christmas tree this year

luna snuggled up on the window seat by the christmas tree

i made a squash snow person

curly larix (larch) is seldom graced by both leaves and snow

the sciadopitys held tufts of snow like flowers

the poodle loves the snow

winterberries!

blue atlas cedar in front of the bald cypress. a reader asked me how the bald cypress is so red in the previous picture. yes, the bald cypress is a rusty red tree after its light, feathery, green needles change color in the fall.

we had our first significant snow fall today, but also our first really low temps, 12 degrees F. so many of the trees, like this bald cypress, still have their leaves. i took this before the snow stopped falling.