Scooped out snow

Juno has worked its way north, and though the strong winds never knocked out the electricity—praise the Lord and perhaps the tree-trimming efforts of our power company—the steady gale did create an intriguing array of natural architecture. In some places around the region, the storm dumped over two feet of light, powdery snow, but here, we had less. Just how much was hard to determine, since the storm tossed the snow this way and that, but when I could find some suitable wind-free flat areas, I measured fairly consistent depths of around a foot, with drifts sometimes waist- to shoulder-high. What was especially interesting was that all of the larger trees bore telltale signs of nor'easter-driven sculpting: scooped-out areas around each trunk where Juno-created vortices had spun the light snow off the trunks and carried the load, well, elsewhere.