Sunday, December 28, 2008

Winter Wonderland

The pictures of snow that I posted about 2 weeks ago was the first snow that we had. So I thought that I would post some more pictures of the rest of the snow. Notice the depth that we had on the top of the house and the garbage cans. Some lovely icicles overhanging our pond out front.
See our neighbors hedge? It was completely bent over our cars. We had planned on having a fire on Christmas morning but Jason would have had to climb on the roof and cut some of it down since the arbavida was bent over our chimney onto our roof.

The big branch of the willow tree. This branch used to be up pretty high in the air.

Now it shall be in the air no more. Due to the massive crack in the limb. We are very happy to have had the tree trimmed back last summer or else we could have ended up with a branch through the roof. Of course now we hope that having to get rid of this branch doesn't send the tree into shock and kill it.

This is what our cul-de-sac looked at evening. I'd forgotten how much I like late evening when there is snow. I love the colors in the sky that reflect up from the snow. It stays light a little later. If I hadn't had to go to work the whole time I would have wanted to play in the snow. Plenty of snow to go around. Since there isn't much traffic on our street, people with light little cars would easily get stuck. We made the decision to not drive our little Mazda Protege and just drive the Subaru Outback. We didn't have any problem getting around.

This picture gives a pretty good idea of how deep the snow was. Good thing we had a shovel! They were sold out in a lot of the stores.

A good picture of the pretty snow falling and our now ruined tree branch.

Most of the snow is gone now and we were some of the fortunate ones that didn't lose power for days on end. (I felt so bad for you Jocelyn!) We had a couple flickers and were without cable and internet for 3 days (turns out that totally sucks!) but for the most part escaped unscathed.

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