This semester has had more canceled school days than any I can remember. Wednesday was the most recent one. I couldn't believe it at first, because there just hadn't been that much snow, but it was snow followed by freezing rain, which coated the snow on the branches and weighed them down. The result was very pretty (in March the trees are just bare and depressing-looking otherwise) but it also brought down a lot of branches and took out the power in pockets all over town. Here's our driveway, blocked by laden-down bushes:
We were fortunate in that nothing big came down and we didn't lose power. Emily was NOT so fortunate. I'm not sure if the branch below by her house is the reason, but she's still without power, which is extra-inconvenient because she only has electric heat (otherwise she could use all this beautiful firewood):
Here's another very common sight these days - Thomas dressed up in concert finery. This one was last night's Philharmonia where his percussion skills were on display in such tunes as the 1812 Overture (no actual cannons, chiz chiz), the Pink Panther theme and the theme from the Dark Knight). As you can see, he likes to relax pre-concert with a little light Nintendo-ing:
I built a snow sculpture:
Frederick ate my snow sculpture:
Pretty, innit? Just this weekend I was remarking to Jami that we should put the goldfish who've been living in our basement all winter back into the pond. "It's not going freeze again, is it?" I said. (Incredibly, at least two goldfish survived in the pond all winter. Let's hope they're safe under there...)
If you look on the surface of the pond (click a couple of times to enlarge) you can see hundreds of little chips of ice. That's from the ice chunks in the trees that the sun has loosened enough that they fall. It's like painful rain outside.
We were fortunate in that nothing big came down and we didn't lose power. Emily was NOT so fortunate. I'm not sure if the branch below by her house is the reason, but she's still without power, which is extra-inconvenient because she only has electric heat (otherwise she could use all this beautiful firewood):
Here's another very common sight these days - Thomas dressed up in concert finery. This one was last night's Philharmonia where his percussion skills were on display in such tunes as the 1812 Overture (no actual cannons, chiz chiz), the Pink Panther theme and the theme from the Dark Knight). As you can see, he likes to relax pre-concert with a little light Nintendo-ing:
I built a snow sculpture:
Frederick ate my snow sculpture:
Pretty, innit? Just this weekend I was remarking to Jami that we should put the goldfish who've been living in our basement all winter back into the pond. "It's not going freeze again, is it?" I said. (Incredibly, at least two goldfish survived in the pond all winter. Let's hope they're safe under there...)
If you look on the surface of the pond (click a couple of times to enlarge) you can see hundreds of little chips of ice. That's from the ice chunks in the trees that the sun has loosened enough that they fall. It's like painful rain outside.
1 comment:
That looks amazing to someone watching the warm sun through the window. I hope you thaw very soon.
xM
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