Well, the “major” snowstorm that was predicted for this area last night turned out to be only a corporal. Thank goodness! I don’t think that there were any power outages in our area and I didn’t see any tree blow-downs on our property this morning.
It was worse in Denver, where our amazing New England Patriots pulled another win out of the snowy hat and are Superbowl bound. Go Pats! At dusk, while the football game was on, a desperate white-tailed doe was feeding on garden grasses that deer have always shunned. We let her:
We got about 2 inches of new snow last night, with the highest recorded wind gusts at 16 mph. It was cold, though: in the low single digits during last night, warming from a minus 7.5°F at 2 p.m. yesterday, according to the local (Naskeag) weather station.
Here’s an early morning sea view from our porch, a woods view from our office windows, and some odds and ends, as seen through windows:
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on January 25 [Deer]) and 26, 2026.)