The first serious storm of the winter dumped half a foot of very wet snow over the region. Although it is the most photogenic type of snow, it can also be the most damaging. Jeanine reported a number of very large downed limbs and I left work a little early to survey the damage. The sun had just set as I crossed the Sudbury River leaving the sky tinted with a soft red brush.  My chainsaw is certainly going to get a workout this weekend and one of our larger pine trees will have to come down but fortunately our house was undamaged.