Yucca Highlighted With Snow

February 26, 2026

This past Sunday was quite the day. The temperature hovering around 33° or 34° with huge gusts of wind and snow coming down. Seems I was lucky being up here on the mountain. Down below it was, for the most part only rain. Elevation has its advantages.

I mentioned wind. Oh my! Did it ever blow, pasting snowflakes on everything. This Yucca filamentosa sure caught a lot of those snowflakes. Flakes were even captured on its thready filaments.

Snow is now in the forecast for early next week. It will be the 2nd day of meteorological spring 2026. We’ll see.

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Brenda Clements Jones

Brenda is a certified Virginia Master Naturalist, a Habitat Defender for Shenandoah National Park, and a devoted fan of Mother Nature. She lives in a cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Shenandoah National Park, and hikes up to the higher elevations of her mountain often to see what nature is up to. Her constant hiking companion is a camera that captures nature as it unfolds through the seasons. It’s her goal to share the natural world around her through her photographs.