Is it Really Spring?

We were busy gearing up for Spring after a cold but practically snowless winter. The studio was turned into a silk flower arranging workshop with Regina, our head waitress, working her creative magic.
A new batch of pumpkin parsley wheat-free dog biscuits was made for welcoming any canine guest to our inn. We freshened up some bathrooms with new shower curtains. And we organized and restocked our art supply shop for the incoming art and fiber art workshops that we'll have this year (about 38 workshops!). Our art supply shop is open to the public year-round. We carry all sorts of supplies, notions, and tools for artists of a variety of media - watercolor, oil, pastel, acrylic, and quilt artists. During our fiber art workshops, we also get a mini fabric and notions shop supplied by our good friends from Log Cabin Fabrics in Selkirk (just 20 minutes from our inn).

Here is one of the magnificent finished bouquets creative by Regina. The weather was looking perfect - sunshine and 60s and 70s. Then - April Fools - Mother Nature decided to play a joke on us and this is what happened!




We love a good joke! Especially one that results in such a beautiful snowy landscape that we were missing all winter. Besides, the snow on the ground lasted only a couple days and now we are back to spring green everywhere!

First Snow of 2014: Photo Tour of the Inn Grounds

I always delight in the beauty and wonder of the first snowfall of the year. Even though I seem to take the same photos every year, each year is again so fresh and inviting. I can't help myself!

So enjoy this year's tour of the grounds of the Greenville Arms 1889 Inn under a blanket of fresh snow.

Snowscape at the Greenville Arms 1889 Inn

We finally got a nice covering of snow in our area, probably about a foot or two. It makes the landscape so beautiful and bright.

Here is a photo tour of the grounds that I took the morning after the snow storm.

The front porch - might need something a little warmer than hot chocolate to keep you warm in those chairs!



Snow is piled high, but the roads were clear already in the early morning. The snow plow crews in our area are great.



A decorative fringe of icicles!



Pressed snow anyone? (This is an antique grape press that Mark got from his grandfather.)



The back porch steps might need a little shoveling.



More icicles on the rear of the Main Inn. This area always gets the mother of all icicles because it doesn't get any direct sunlight.



Somewhere under all that snow is our creek.



This is the front of the carriage house.



The sculpture has a nice party hat of snow.



The wishing well. I'll bet some of you are wishing for Spring!



Icicle row behind the carriage house.



The snow was up to my knees. My foot is somewhere down beneath that snow.