Isn't this a beautiful sight? 

It almost looks like a painting. 

We drove 55 minutes north to Mt Shasta, after breakfast this morning. Then we ate at Black Bear diner. Drove up the Mountain - saw the Snow and drove back home again. Home by 1pm. 

Bunny Flat elevation 6950. 

The road to the top is closed this time of the year. 

You can hike up and go sledding,  cross-country skiing, or snowshoeing. 

I won't be, but you can!

The trees are so pretty decked out in snow. You can't beat these "decorations". 

Funny how I'm hearing many of you are having nice mild weather and no snow yet. I think the West Coast mountains always get the first snow in the nation besides Alaska - well technically Alaska is part of the west coast. 

I can't complain about the weather though - it was in the low 60s today and sunny. Even on the mountain, it was a warm 36 degrees. I didn't even need a coat. My feet got cold, due to the ice. No wind at all. 

I thought this tree was different with all the moss on it. 

Even nature has skinny trees! 

We're blessed to live close enough to visit the snow in the day. It used to take 4 hours when I lived on the coast to get to Tahoe where my folks owned a duplex. Well, really it took 6 hours - 2 hours just to get across the Bay Bridge and the Carquinez Bridge. Then bumper to bumper traffic through Sacramento. Then you had to stop for a chain inspection. 

In the middle of the night - 4 hours. 

The snowpack is now in higher elevations  - but soon it will be lower closer to us. I don't want to have to put on chains just for a drive. So we always turn around just before that. Laydee loves to play in the snow so we'll be making more day trips so she can run after snowballs. When she sees snow, she gets all excited. 

- had to move the recliner to the side and the tree is in the corner of the front window which is a bay window. It looks fine. 

I decorated around the house and then, I spent a couple of days, LOOKING at it and have decided, I needed LESS. So I will be putting some of it away. My husband put less ornaments on the tree as well. That's just the season we are in. It's not like we're not in a festive mood; because we are and looking forward to it all - perhaps our tastes are changing.  

I do have way too much stuff - I just don't have the space to properly display it tastefully - it would just be crowded in with other stuff and not given the dignity, to stand on its own merit. 

When I get it the way I like, I'll take some photos. 

Foodie and I went out yesterday, grocery shopping, and we hit a couple of non-grocery places too. The Hobby Lobby here had empty shelves! Totally out of lights! I noticed at Costco, the big beautiful trees they had on display were sold out. Dollar Tree was sparse as well. I'm happy that I am at a place, where I don't need any more new decorations. I can walk through these places and not buy a thing.  We've been using the same lights for years. Every year, I keep telling the husband,  "This is the year we'll probably have to replace the lights."

Well, it better not be this year, because there aren't any left!