Okay, first I’m going to apologize to all the 10,000 Step Clubbers out there – I did not get in 10,000 steps yesterday. I doubt if I got in 100, even. Seriously, I’ve got to stop planning these wonderfully busy weekends because WHAM!!! I get smacked with a nasty head cold and spend the entire day in bed.
Today, I feel much better and am already half-way to my 10,000 steps. A couple more 30-minutes walks on the walking machine and I’ll be there. The legs are still a little too shaky to get in a full 45 minutes, but I’ll be there again tomorrow.
The snow we got Friday afternoon and evening combined with the shrieking wind Friday night and most of yesterday have left some very interesting drifts in our yard. Some of these things are over 3 feet deep, but in other places there is practically bare ground.
Check out these funky drifts out by the cars that we left at the end of the driveway. I know sculpters who would be seriously jealous of these beauties.
At least it was easy to walk around the cars to get them scraped off and ready to go to town. But don’t you just love the graceful smoothness of them and the way the morning sun creates those highlights and shadows. I’m such a huge fan of God as an artist! Lovely!
See what I mean by nearly bare ground next to drifts? In front of our house is this doughnut-shaped driftage with the house sitting in the hole.
And this is the back of the house. See that 3+ foot drift in front of the barn? That’s where our driveway is and the reason we park by the road when we know these storms are coming through.
Sorry for the odd angle of the picture – don’t know why I took it that way, but I did. See the shiny road? That, my friends, is ICE!!! Scott pulled out of the drive in the Honda this morning and did a doughnut right in the middle of the road – funniest thing I’ve seen in a while. He decided to go to the art center today and I’m here at home getting ready to finish getting the SWIFT newsletter ready for the printer.
As cold as it it outside (it was about 8 degrees when these pictures were taken) there is no wind and the sun feels lovely against your face. Really, if I didn’t still have a cold, I’d but out in it playing. But I thought you would enjoy them. Did anyone else get snow this weekend? How much did you get?
February 7th, 2010 at 1:21 pm
It has been wonderful this winter to not have to drive in ice and snow, and even if it’s not snowing but blowing, blowing snow can be just as scary to drive in as falling snow. I agree with you though, it really is lovely.
February 7th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
I have been down with a cold, too. The snowy pics are pretty as long as I don’t have to be in it!
February 7th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
Those snow drifts are so interesting and beautiful! That road looks pretty scary though! Get well soon!
February 8th, 2010 at 7:31 am
8 degrees?! Good grief that is cold. We didn’t get any snow, thank goodness. You can keep it with your ridiculous cold temps
. The snow sure is pretty. I can’t believe that Scott went driving on that ice. I’ve only been driving in snow about once. You get about an inch here and schools start shutting down and people don’t know how to drive. Rain and fog we can handle, snow we can’t. Hope you feel better soon.
February 8th, 2010 at 8:06 am
I love the snow your pics are great, be careful with the icy road looks very dangerous. Keep walking!
February 8th, 2010 at 8:27 pm
I have never understood the concept of snow drifts until seeing your pictures today – how very cool and beautiful!
Is it wrong that I giggled while reading about your husband doing a donut on the ice? Glad he was ok!
February 9th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
I’m not sure where you live but the picture of the snow and ice look a lot like our in Pa. Good thing were dug out because another one is on its way.
Don’t be so hard on yourself!!!! You should be resting if you have a cold.
Take care, Barb
February 9th, 2010 at 10:49 pm
We started out the weekend with a light snow but it turned to rain, of which we got almost 3 inches. Your snow pix are lovely, but I don’t envy that ice!
March 2nd, 2010 at 8:47 am
Cool snow drifts! (And I definitely am enjoying the fact that they’re yours, not mine!!)
Hope you feel better soon! Don’t push yourself to exercise too much when you’re sick….don’t want to prolong the illness by overtaxing your body!
Take care!
Sue
March 2nd, 2010 at 8:48 am
D’oh!
Just realized I had my reader in backwards mode…..so this is an old post and you certainly feel better by now!
Sue