The evolution of a blizzard

Went to bed having heard that we were going to have a small snow storm.

And woke up to rain.

...Boring!

But then... at around 11am, it started sticking.

I thought, wow, a little bit of snow. That's nice... But the fact is, it's still raining.

[I am thoroughly enjoying the perks of working from home, part time... time for photographing the courtyard at intervals]

By noon it was looking a bit more like snow.

[not much, but a little]

And now, by 2.30pm, we have a full blizzard in effect.

We are about to go out on a shopping excursion for the evening... And, since it is about an hour from sundown (official sunset: 15.36), we had better go, now go!