It's NOT Over, Yet

Winter has been in two words — wintry and snowy so far this year, not only here in Nashua, NH, but so many other parts of the US.

Since the start of 2026, there's been about 5 measurable snowfalls here, the most recent were this past weekend, Friday overnight into Saturday, and again on Monday.

Saturday morning when we went for a walk along the recently completed riverwalk, there were some beautiful winter images.

The riverwalk extends along the Nashua River. There's an entrance from the first floor of Clocktower Place apartments shown in the arrow above.

The above winter scenes, familiar to readers of this blog, were taken from the safety and comfort of our 5th floor apartment during and after this past Monday's blizzard. Yes, NH had more snow, some parts of the state received more than others. We were on the low side in Nashua and had between 6-7 inches of new snow. 

Yard and car of RI family were buried in Monday snowstorm

Family living in RI just outside Providence were not as fortunate. That city received over 35 inches making it the largest snowfall in the city's history. Family in RI were still digging out on Tuesday. The bottom photo above is one of the family cars.

Enough of winter weather as Spring is coming even if these robins are early and gathered around open water on the Nashua River on Saturday morning. The photos were taken from our apartment window; the robins were across the river.

Here's another photo that wasn't doctored, but taken straight out of camera (SOOC) later on Saturday when we walked along the riverwalk.

We saw a lot of robins. This larger group of robins, commonly known as a round, blush or breast, was in the tree alongside the river. Amazingly, the robins were quite tolerant of our walking and didn't fly off. It was the first time we'd seen such a large gathering.

Does this signal early Spring? Possibly not as American Robins are native to New England and are one of the region's most common, widespread breeding birds. Many birds overwinter in New England relying on fruit and berries as worms definitely are unavailable now.

While we'd like to believe the robins, another round of snow is forecast for early today. Thankfully, it's only predicted to be an inch. We hope the forecast is correct.

It's hard to see in this photo, but it's snowing again on Wed, Feb 25

A freight train goes by across the river weekly on Wednesday

As of 8 am, a light snow was falling over Nashua, NH. This one is quite different from Monday's storm with just a slight wind. Once again, the Nashua River is covered over.

What River ?

Most folks who have viewed this blog on a regular basis (or irregular) basis well know my fascination preoccupation taking views of the Nashua River from our 5th floor mill apartment window.

Totals as of an hour ago are around 18 inches according to Patrick who has been  monitoring weather reports. Needless to say we are not going anywhere.

In a panoramic view an hour ago this morning it was hard to tell where the land ended and the river started. But, as you can see from the bit of water on the left side, there is a water there.

This 3-image collage is a familiar view of as much of the river as we can see from our apartment window. It's still snowing with light snow expected to continue until into the afternoon. Totals as of an hour ago are around 18 inches according to Patrick who has been  monitoring weather reports.

This was the morning view on Saturday with leftover snow from the previous weekend. The light coating of river ice created interesting and beautiful patterns. 

By Sunday morning about 10 am, our view was of cloudy skies, but there was no snow falling.

That soon changed as within a couple of hours, the snow was coming down and visibility was very limited. It worsened over the course of the storm. However, opening the apartment window and screens would be to invite the storm indoors, so I resisted taking photos.

This first major snow storm of 2026 not only impacted New England, but so many other parts of the U.S. with over 30 states affected by over a foot of snow and ice. While Nashua, NH, only received snow, followed by bitter cold temperatures and winds this week.

A homemade pot of chicken soup and fresh baked bread will be enjoyed today.

Work on the jigsaw puzzle continues with completion and a reveal later this week.

Stay safe and warm as possible

Shelf snowmen outside our apt door

Snow Monday After

A post earlier this week showed images from a couple of weekend snowstorms. Those photos were taken from the comfort of our 5th floor apartment windows.

But to fully appreciate the beauty of a fresh snowfall, we walked outdoors through the recently completed Parc De Notre Renaissance Française. This pocket park is adjacent to the mill apartments and the newly-installed park walkway leads to Main Street in downtown Nashua.

La Dame de Notre Renaissance Française 

The park's centerpiece is the bronze sculpture, La Dame de Notre Renaissance Française also known by the shortened name, La Dame. The sculpture depicts a female mill worker with her schoolboy son who is showing her a book written in French. The mother has a spindle in her pocket to symbolize her work in the mills. 

For several hours, the view from the park to Clocktower Place mill apartments and along the Nashua River was a winter wonderland.

Cottonmill (top photo) and Lofts 34 (bottom photo) are also former mill buildings along the Nashua River that have been converted to apartment housing. The walkway shown above is part of the river walk and extends back to the park near Clocktower Place, our residence.

In downtown Nashua, Main Street was snow-free and had been cleared to the pavement; however, trees and sidewalks were still snow-covered.

By the time we were nearing the end of our walk, skies had nearly cleared which provided some wonderful reflections from buildings along the river front.

These snow-covered trees were at the main entrance of our apartment building. Overnight, a period of light snow revealed a light dusting early today, but without the winter wonderland effect as earlier. However, this weekend another, possibly significant, snowfall is predicted for late Sunday into Monday. We hope everyone else in the path of this storm remans safe.

While some folks may be far less fond of snow, we always enjoy its quiet beauty — after all, it's winter in New England.

• The first fall of snow is not only an event but it is a magical event (J.B. Priestley).
• The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches. (E.E. Cummings)
• A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. (Carl Reiner)
• If you choose not to find joy in the snow, you will have less joy in your life but still the same amount of snow. (Anonymous)

Snowy Monday

This morning, we awoke to winter wonderland in Nashua, NH, as did folks in many parts of the U.S. and Canada. These snow scenes were taken early this morning from our mill apartment window.

There was about a 3 to 4 inch snowfall both days of the past weekend.

Currently, light snow is falling once again; however, it's expected to end within the next hour.

Meanwhile, it's creating some beautiful snow scapes along the Nashua River. We're going on an outdoor walk to enjoy and capture more of this winter beauty.

This lone kayaker was on the river yesterday afternoon during a break in the snow.

Your Turn — Did anyone else awake to a wintry wonderland, if so, where ?

Catching Up

Spring was definitely not in the air this past weekend, when we work up to this scene.

Outside our living room window early Saturday, April 12

As lovely as this scene might have been a couple of months ago, it was neither expected nor welcomed in mid-April. The parking lot in the top photo is from the Lofts 34 apartments across the river from Clocktower Place, where we live and park underground, lucky us.

But, it was over within a couple of hours and then the melting began as a light rain followed. 

Now, a followup to a fellow blogger's question. Last week's Friday Funnies post about a chair sculpture brought a question from Nick who queried: Is the sculpture meant to relate to the chairs in some way?

The answer is that I didn't know the how and why about the sculpture and the high and low seating relationship. On a recent river walk, along which this sculpture is placed, I checked if the piece had an identifying name. Nashua hosts an annual sculpture symposium. This most likely was a prior year's sculpture.

Success, sort of, about the sculpture, which is titled Between. It was created by sculptor Vasilis Vasili in 2016, a Greek contemporary sculptor whose work has been characterized by concepts like entrapment, restriction, escape, gateway, separation and partition. 

Vasilis Vasili

Vasili's sculptures are displayed in various cities in Europe, USA, Canada, China, India, Taiwan and Turkey. However, despite several online searches nothing was located about the sculpture, other than the artist information.

This year's 18th annual Symposium will take place May 8 to May 31 with the theme of In the Making and the four participating sculptors are all women: Casey Schachner (U.S.), Valerie Funk (Germany), Danaë LeBlond-Joris (France), Yunmi Lee (South Korea/Italy).

Top Row: Casey Schachner, Valerie Funk,
Bottom Row: Danaë LeBlond-Joris, Yunmi Lee

The artists work outdoors at the Picker Artist Studios which are within walking distance of the mill apartments where they will be working for three weeks from May 12 to May 28. The public is invited to observe and interact with the visiting sculptors. We will be walking there a few times to watch the works being created. And, future blog posts will highlight the progress of the sculptures.

Nashua is unique in being the only U.S. city to host an annual sculpture symposium. Since 2008, guest artists from around the world have created 52 sculptures which have been gifted to the city of Nashua as part of its permanent collection. These large, stone or metal outdoor sculptures have been permanently installed in various public spaces in downtown Nashua, schools, parks, neighborhoods, walking trails and riverfront paths. 

Top: Getty Images; Bottom: Atlantic Productions/Magellan

Today, marks as a sad anniversary. I was 113 years ago when the RMS Titanic sank with the loss of an estimated 1,500 lives in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912. The 46,328 ton pride of the White Star Line sank on its maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic about 400 miles off the coast of Canada. 

A new National Graphic documentary, Titanic: The Digital Resurrection, presents the most detailed digital reconstruction of the wreckage ever created allowing researchers to challenge long-held theories about the disaster and that the ship didn’t split in half, but was torn into two pieces. The project took some two years to finish using cutting-edge underwater scanning technology capturing 715,000 digital images of the wreckage which were then transformed into a full-scale digital image of the Titanic.

Bloggers who have the National Geographic channel, Hulu or Disney+ will be able to stream the documentary. Since we do not subscribe to any of these, I'm hoping it will be released to other channels later. I've watched online previews, it's a fascinating documentary.

And, for those of us in the U.S., this is the day the tax man cometh. There will be longer than usual lines at the local post office. And, the USPS has filed notice with the PRC (Postal Regulatory Commission) for a postage increase, effective July 13, 2025, new rates include  increase for a First-Class Mail Forever stamp, from 73¢ to 78¢ — stock up now 😲.

Finally, the knee pain is lessening with abstinence from the elliptical, steps and vigorous walking plus the use of prescribed anti-inflammatory meds (ibuprofen). In speaking with others who have had similar muscle strain, it can take up to a few weeks for complete healing. Thanks to all asked how I was healing.

Just wondering 🤔 — Does the city you live in host any unique events?

Friday Funnies

Snow fooling around this post is about ❄️ which, many folks except ☃️may be tired of now

Last weekend, Nashua, NH, like so many other states, had a winter storm with snow, rain and then very cold 🥶 temps this week. Everyone is tired of winter weather.

"Familiar" winter scenes taken from safely and warmly indoors 

Folks familiar with this blog will recognize the above locations — the view from our mill apt window and roadways visible from a 5th floor hall window. We weren't going anywhere during and shortly after the weekend winter storm — temps have stayed in the single digits overnight and 20s daytime all week. Main roadways are clear, but many side streets and city sidewalks have areas of solid ice, including the local library.

One thing that abundant snow is good are sculptures like these on display at the Great Glen Trails Outdoor Center in Gorham, NH, where we went for my SnowCoach birthday trip.

There were about a dozen of these sculptures behind the outdoor center. We were told that they had been completed a few days before. Several were quite complex, not to mention unusual, but none identified the creation or the snow sculptor. These had been created during the Jackson Invitational Snow Sculpting Competition on the weekend prior to our visit.

Patrick with his favorite sculpture, which was also the largest one. It's the closest he wants to get to a moose. Despite seeing Moose Crossings signs on the highways, we've never seen a moose actually crossing the road, thankfully.

Meanwhile, these snow folks are staying indoors outside residents' entry doors.

This truck was seen on Main Street yesterday with a load of snow and Do No Follow. 

Maybe, it's going to a secret snow location. (I know that's not really true, but just maybe?)

Enjoy Your Weekend, Everyone 

Warm trend coming here, weekend temps in the 30s