14 posts tagged “winter”
I stood and watched, bundled to from head to toe in 15 degree weather, having almost fainted when I realized Jon has my camera with him today at school. So this awful cell phone snapshot is the best I can do. The photographer inside of me is heartbroken but the poet inside of me is inspired. I just wish you could have seen its brilliance.
I'm thrilled with the snow, its what I had been waiting for all winter, but its caused a ton of problems for our weekend plans. Jon's little brother was scheduled to fly in to Cincinnati yesterday, but his flight had been canceled because of the storm. He was rescheudled to fly in this afternoon but there is a blizzard warning until this evening and we are unsure if he is going to make it through. Even if his plane is able to land, we still have to drive an hour in blizard conditions to pick him up. It's definitely not optimal.
But gosh its pretty.
I took a little time this morning to play with Luna outside in the snow and caught this beautifully intense shot, only she could pull off looking so elegant while covered in snow.
While watching my invigorated puppy race around the back yard, something rubbed off and I was overcome with the urge to build a snowman. I found myself rolling a snowball and the next thing I knew I had four feet of snow built up and was running around the kitchen searching for edible facial features and extra winter accessories.
I'm still having trouble getting my life back in order and on a regular schedule. I could probably blame most of this brain fog on lack of sleep. For the past week or two, I've had wild dreams that are heavily based on emotions, I wake up feeling jolted and find myself debating the realism of it all. I'm sure its nothing that some warm milk and B12 before bed can't cure but the bags under my eyes are giving away my mood.
And then there is the rain. I want nothing more than to spend an afternoon outside, but I can't do this, the ground is so saturated from the past month of nothing but rain and the forecast shows not much for change. My back yard is a mud pit and for some strange reason it went from 10 degrees on Wednesday to 65 degrees on Saturday. Thats just not right.
Now the doctor would tell me to get some good rest and a little sunshine.
If only I could, doc.
After two weeks of nothing but clouded skies, rain and deep fog... the sun is finally out. The weatherman this morning promised one day of sun and then the remainder of the week its back to more rain. I just want to run outside in my now mud filled swampy back yard and bask in the warmth of the sun and pick out cloud animals against the blue sky. I've been smiling all morning as I watched the sun rise, I hadn't known how badly this weather had affected my mood.
The afternoon the sun came out and after my ritual Sunday grocery shopping we headed to the park to find a sledding hill. No one was out there today so we lucked out with our own private hill.. Luna, Jon and I spent hours laughing in the snow, well Luna didn't laugh but she sure did smile a lot.
I've never been sledding and have never really experienced any winter-time sports so I had a complete blast! And I'm pooped.
Its been months of winter and cold temperatures but no snow here in Kentucky. While the rest of the mid west/central US is under twenty inches were dry as a bone and freezing cold. Finally today the light snow fell long enough to accumulate two inches, just enough to play in!
I've lived in Kentucky (my idea of the north) for over a year now and have not had the chance to drive in snow or ice. Jon has always taken the wheel when anything got messy, but now that we are no longer sharing a ride to work I have to drive myself and this morning I ventured out into a world blanketed in white. The outer loop on my commute was fine in fact I was flying as usual with no slippage. Maybe I got confident or overly excited about how beautiful everything looked covered in snow but when i got on the road to my office I fishtailed, I could feel the car move to the right then to the left and I tried my best not to completely freak out. I'd remembered Jon told me not to break if i hit ice so I just took my foot off the gas and tried to fight the urge not to turn the wheel. I saw a light on my dashboard and I laughed as i realized the little picture that lit up looks just like I did at the moment (a car with swervey lines behind it) I thought "oh look, even the car is mocking me!" I later discovered that this is something called "traction control" which I didn't know my car had and is a good thing... After a few heart pounding seconds I gripped the snow covered road again. For the next couple hundred yards I crept at a snail's pace and worried about the upcoming multiple hairpin turns I would have to make to get in my parking lot. I made it fine but when it came time to park I couldn't see the parking lines.. so i guessed.
I've made it sound like its a foot of snow on the ground... oh the horror! When really its only about a half an inch but for a girl from sunny Florida who's never driven in snow or ice, its a scary thing. I love the snow (just not driving in it)
