We had several days of light snow last week as a large storm swirled around us.  I think we got 7 or 8 inches on the ground all together.

We did manage to keep a passable track in the lane as the snow fell without having to have it plowed again.

The tracks of a fox are in the snow just west of the garden.  In the past, I've seen his tracks pass through the fence to hunt mice under the snow in the garden, but this time he seemed to just be passing by.

I caught some pictures of this pileated woodpecker working on a deep hole in a sassafras tree along the edge of our front yard.  I had seen him before and noticed several of the typical large oval holes in the tree.

He's excavating quite a hole, as he here has his whole head inside the tree.  These woodpeckers are about the size of a crow.

The top hole is the one that he was working on, though there are two fresh holes here and another around to the left side that this picture doesn't show.  The top hole is four or five inches high at the entry and the tree appears to be hollow in the middle.  Oddly, there was mud inside the hole on the bottom, like a floor.  I don't know if the woodpecker put it there or some other animal trying to make a home.  The hole is about five feet off of the ground.

Large chips of wood are scattered on the snow beneath the tree from the excavation.