California Central Coast Snow

Petals from a Bradford Pear Tree Cover the Ground
@bagarad (14283)
Paso Robles, California
March 21, 2017 1:48am CST
The Northeast and the Central Plains may have their blizzards, but we have a different kind of snow each spring on the Central Coast where I live. The snow comes as the petals fall from the blossoms of flowering trees like these from a Bradford pear tree. I passed this on my way home from looking for my mailbox key. What do you think? Will it pass for snow or not? It's white and it falls gently to the ground, but it's dry and doesn't melt. No snow shovels needed.
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@allknowing (130088)
• India
22 Mar 17
Here in India where I live it does not snow at all but I too have plants that sprinkle snow in my garden (lol)
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@allknowing (130088)
• India
22 Mar 17
@bagarad Neither snow nor blooms in the deserts sadly
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
22 Mar 17
@allknowing That's what I thought, but I didn't want to get dogmatic about it since I've only been in one desert.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
22 Mar 17
I guess Mother Nature sends snow to most of us, except maybe in the desert. Does it snow in the desert or have blooming trees?
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22 Mar 17
That looks like my typical "snow".
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
23 Mar 17
Do you ever get the wet kind where you live?
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
23 Mar 17
@OldRoadsOnceTraveled Is there ever enough to have to shovel it?
23 Mar 17
@bagarad Once or twice every few years.
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@prinzcy (32326)
• Malaysia
21 Mar 17
It's a pretty sight and it won't melt. We have views like that in town where they planted lots of tecoma trees.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
22 Mar 17
Bradford Pear Tree in Bloom on the First Day of Spring
It's pretty on the tree and pretty on the ground. Here's part of the tree that dropped these petals.
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• China
21 Mar 17
You may well call it snow .We have many ancient poetry that compared the white petals to snow.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
22 Mar 17
That's interesting. I can see why a poet would say that.
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@JudyEv (323744)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Mar 17
It's very pretty but I bet you're glad you don't have to shovel it.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
22 Mar 17
You bet, I'm glad. It's still pretty to see it fall from the trees and float down.
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@JohnRoberts (109865)
• Los Angeles, California
21 Mar 17
No, snow has more of a blanket effect and you don't have to rake it.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
22 Mar 17
Spoil sport! I agree it doesn't have a blanket effect, but I've seen some light real snowfalls, like the one we had in Ventura County in 1989 that looked about the same as this. And we don't have to rake this because not enough falls for a rake to catch.
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@KrauseHome (36449)
• United States
21 Mar 17
Wow just looking some one who had no idea it was anything else would think this is really snow.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
22 Mar 17
That's what I though, too. I've only seen snow where I lived once -- when I lived in Southern California. I thin layer fell on my orange tree and the ground. My kids were gathering it in buckets to make snowballs. They loved it.
@andriaperry (116876)
• Anniston, Alabama
21 Mar 17
We have that snow here too! Yes it`ll pass,
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
21 Mar 17
I prefer snow I don't have to shovel. I pity those who have to face the other kind each winter.
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