Moss Walk in the Monroe Park Neighborhood in Eugene

When I was home in Kellogg over the Christmas holiday, the sky had the cold, iron blue look of winter.

Except the fir trees, no green, no vegetation:



Mom's backyard was under piles of snow. It got much deeper than this photograph portrays:




But, here in Eugene, the January 13th winter sky is cobalt, warm, cloudless:



The early buds of leaves are already beginning to push their way out of the tree branches:


We haven't had any significant snowfall this winter in Eugene.

In fact, as I walked the neighborhood with Snug today, it suddenly occurred to me that instead of snow, it's as if we've had a moss fall: