Concord, Mass.
1907
April 9
  The north-easter which began yesterday morning
increased in violence through last night and today.
It rained hard all this forenoon and snowed all
the afternoon. Now, at nightfall, the snow lies six
inches deep, on the level, in open places and loads
the branches of the trees almost to breaking in the
woods. I had not thought to see so wintry a 
landscape again this spring as met my eye
wherever I went late this afternoon. The beauty
of the snow burdened pines, hemlocks and birches
equaled anything that I have ever seen before,
even at Bethel. This, however, was only in
sheltered places; elsewhere the raging north-east
wind tore the snow from even the pines
before it could collect there in any quantity.
The birches along the river bank were bent 
over the water in arches of surpassing grace
and the delicate tracery of their snow-laden
twigs was truly exquisite. The river appeared
to be open only over its channel for on the
flooded meadows the water was everywhere
covered with a dingy white slush which looked
very like snow ice. In the more sheltered 
woods so much of the snow lodged in the
tops and on the branches of the trees that
the ground was nowhere very deeply covered and
under the pines and hemlocks it was nearly
or quite bare. This gave the birds a chance 
to get at the earth without much trouble &
wherever it offered Fox Sparrows, Juncos & Robins
were availing themselves of it.
Heavy North-east Snow Storm