Vintage 2020: December Weather Highs and Lows

When is a single dandelion worth taking a picture of? When it blooms on December 3rd.

We have been working in the vineyard during the month of December. On December 3, we were still rolling and tying up the netting in preparation for winter. The weather was a balmy 48 degrees and it was good to be outdoors and working.
We finished rolling and tying up the netting on December 11 and took in the clothespins and secured the ends of the netting.

This is probably the earliest that we have managed to roll up the netting in the entire vineyard. Truth be told, there are still a few clothespins out there that need to come in.
In between working in the vineyard, when inclement weather was on the radar, we were in our basement preparing to bottle our Chardonnay, which we did on December 12.
On December 17, we had our first major snowstorm of this winter, although we did have a snowfall on October 30, which didn't really stick on the ground. This time we had a decent amount of snow, perhaps 6 inches, which was on the low side of what the forecast was calling for (6-12 inches).
We weren't able to go to the vineyard, but our hunter sent us these photos:

Looking at these photos from our hunter brought to my mind the Robert Frost poem, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
          Whose woods these are I think I know.
          His house is in the village though;
          He will not see me stopping here
          To watch his woods fill up with snow.
The snow on December 17 was washed away by the rains and winds that came on Christmas day. Only three more days left in December, 2020. The forecast looks uneventful.