Getting back to normal

The all-day wet snow yesterday doesn't seem to have caused any more damage, although it will take many of the trees and shrubs awhile to recover. These geese, on Cherokee Lake, made it OK.

I saw one or two early trillium flowers before the freeze, but most of the young plants were frozen. This one was in a protected area:

The rain and snow is gone, but the wind from the remnants of that nor'easter is still blowing so hard the water going over the Persimmon Creek/Cherokee Lake dam is being blown backwards: