On Saturday the 29th, we got our first snow flurries in the valley. It was a cold, cold storm! We drove to Payson for a high school marching band competition, and it was 32° with snow coming down pretty hard and lots of wind. Our poor daughter had to march in that weather on a muddy field! But she had fun and the band took first place.

This photo was on Sunday, and most of the snow on the mountains had melted that afternoon. You can just see a little on the peaks far in the background.

The leaves on my trees haven’t started changing yet, except for the Japanese maple by the front door, and the viburnum bushes in the foreground are starting to change. My front flowerbed looks pretty empty, because I spent a lot of time on Saturday removing things, dividing some of them, and transplanting other things.