I went along on a full moon hike at the Arboretum tonight and the snow started falling. For the first hour of the hike, we heard the lovely sounds of graupel - these fluffy ice pellets that start as snowflakes but add on ice droplets as they fall - as it dropped onto leaves on the mostly bare ground. It felt like the start of a new era of winter as we walked away from the warm and unfrozen days of January into earlier mornings, longer days, and hopefully a white landscape to explore. This is a view from West Spring in Wingra Woods looking out towards some old pines.
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