You have seen this trail in a lighter shade of white but today there were hardly any patches of white in the forest. This is the first in over a week that we have gotten back here. Orion seems to have given the power to the "bad dogs" - one of our neighbors runs in the forest with her 6-8 dogs who think they own the National Forest and they scare him, last night he stood by our fence and whined when I went across) and wouldn't cross the field behind our house so I finally took him way up the road and entered through a neighbor's driveway.

If you look real closely you can see a few blades of grass (this is one of the million hummocks). 

I do believe there is hope for spring.