Winter Marched In

March has definitely roared in like a lion in the U.S. with severe weather that's included snowfall, frigid temperatures and tornadoes in many states and sadly many deaths as well. Here, in Nashua, NH, we've been fortunate in that most of the snow storms this winter have been relatively "light." Other New England and mid-Atlantic states have received far more snowfall this season.

That said, the latest snow event this past Sunday night deposited between 6-7 inches of wet heavy snow. As in previous winter posts, this was my first snow view on Monday shortly after 7 a.m. (Yes, I know it's downright "tough" to see this view from inside our apt living room windows.)

This view is also like others that have been shown before and it was also taken from our apartment windows in a former mill. The grand-looking white house is the "Greeley House" which dates to the 1840s and is on the National Historic Register. It's was always a private residence and presently it's being converted into several apartment residences.  

The large brick building behind it formerly housed the Nashua Gummed & Coated Paper Co. which began in 1889. It was renovated and converted to a 200-unit apartment complex called Lofts 34 which recently opened. This view is along the Nashua River shortly about 8 a.m. on Monday after the snow had ended.

This is a view of Clocktower Place, the 325-unit mill apartment building that formerly housed the Nashua Manufacturing Company, a cotton textile manufacturer that operated in the city from 1823 to 1945.

The newly-fallen snow was wonderful to photograph as it was a wet snow which clung to the tree branches. This beauty was fleeting and a couple of hours later, the branches were once again bare.
Walking along the downtown main street, many common objects were quite interesting when newly covered in a layer of white. Soon enough, the city's street and sidewalks were being cleared by the Nashua Public Works Department.

We stopped at a local coffee shop for breakfast, then went to a nearby park to have some winter snow fun. Grenville volunteered his arms before we found some sticks.

A couple of neighbors joined us and built a "snow lady" to keep this mill worker statue "company." The six-foot bronze statue is in the Notre Renaissance Francaise Park and honors French Canadian female mill workers who labored in textile mills along the Nashua River.

We hope that our snow folks will stay around for a few more days and it's likely they will remain awhile. This week's long-range forecast calls for high temperatures in the 20s to mid-30s with some freezing temps overnight.

We realize how fortunate we've been in terms of winter weather here. We're keeping everyone who has been affected by recent severe weather in our thoughts.