So…we’ve been under either a Winter Storm Warning, Winter Storm Watch or Winter Weather Advisory since Saturday. So far a lot of bluster, a few squalls, a few flurries.

I took Bear to Wayfarer’s at lunchtime.

Not really a “picnic by the lake” kind of day…

It was as cold as it looks…not so much the temperature, but the wind.

Even blowing from the south-southwest, it was not a warm wind. But it was strong and from that direction, it certainly riled up the lake at the Wayfarer’s end.

The heavy snow has reportedly started in the Idaho panhandle and western-most Montana. NOAA reports that some areas are getting a foot of snow in a hurry and some areas nothing. Huh. At one point they forecast 4 to 8 to 12 inches in Flathead Valley.

We’ll see.

This evening, as I write this, the wind is howling and it is snowing heavily… :)!

Fire crackling in the woodstove. Bob and Bear and I are cozy inside. It is mid-January – barely a month into Winter. Let it snow!