These are from just after Christmas, on a day when the temperatures soared to the sweltering high 40’s and low 50’s… (Click on the photo to the right to see more.)

While we had quite a fun time in the snow a week earlier, it was nice to see it melt down into the ground and drains along with the colder temperatures. For a moment, we thought that we might be back in sunny California, until we went to the park and encountered the mud fields (which, a day before, were vast snow/ice/slush fields). Ahhh, there is nothing like a beautiful white snow scape turning into a sticky, messy, mud dump.