A Nearly-June Snowstorm

We went to bed listening to the rain fall, and we woke up to the rainfall as well. That's not common here in Utah. Still in the early morning, I noticed the rain turning slushy. "That's getting awfully close to snow," I thought. I didn't expect it to last, and I definitely didn't expect it to stick. Several hours later, I saw a limb on the back tree break off and fall. In an attempt to rescue other branches, I went outside and shook another branch, only to hear it crack and break off, too. I was quite sad. Let me post a few pictures...

Before (last fall)...

During...

After: (We obviously need to trim the tree up a little, but the broken branches have been removed.)

I wanted to get some pictures of the huge branches that fell off of our gigantic front yard trees, but before I could do that, some of our neighbors were over here with their chain saw, clippers, truck, and trailer. They worked tirelessly pulling, trimming, and hauling away branches. I think we lost a whole regular tree's worth of branches.

Here are some other little trees in the back. I was able to shake the snow off of them, and it looks like no damage was done there. Whew.

While eating breakfast this morning, Garrick read me this week's weather report. It mentioned that we had a chance to break the record for the coldest high temperature on May 24. Anything in the low 50's would do it, and the forecasted high was 54. Then we had a laugh when Garrick read the Bear Lake forecast - snow with a high temp in the 40's. Well Reed and Ralonna, the joke's on us. :)