Broken

I've been looking in on The Tree lately, in hopes of taking a "Spring" photo. Yesterday I elected to wait, observing that it was a few days (maybe a week) away from flowering (a few had already appeared). Last night's whomping good thunder storm, with its accompanying 2~3 inches of wet, heavy snow, has sadly changed things.



Many other trees in the area are also broken, and several have come down entirely. Ah, Spring in the Pacific Northwest...