Showing posts with label SNOW. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SNOW. Show all posts

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Project 365…Week THawREEing



JOINING SARAH WITH PROJECT 365 AGAIN THIS WEEK.

PLEASE CLICK ON EACH PIC...YOU GET A MUCH BETTER VIEW

 
 UNFORTUNATELY, THE PICS I HAD WANTED TO ADD ARE ON MY LAPTOP…WHICH DECIDED TO DIE TONIGHT...IT’S FATE IS A GUESSING GAME AT THIS MOMENT. 
1st: pray for a blogging friend, Joanne at The Simple Wife)... She had a stroke on Tuesday ...desperately need the swelling to go down in her brain. Please pray for her and her family)

HOPEFULLY, KATIE’S DADDY (MY NEPHEW, ‘MAGNUM CUM LAUDE’ BRANIAC THAT HE IS) WILL BE ABLE TO ‘FISS IT’ FOR ME…I HOPE, I HOPE.   ‘TIL THEN, HERE'S WHAT WAS AVAILABLE ON MY SD CARD AND ON MY PREVIOUS POSTS…

LAST SUNDAY, 1/9/11, BROUGHT US OUR FIRST SNOWFALL OF THIS YEAR…IT WAS A DOOZY (AS MY PAPA WOULD HAVE SAID)
BG

1/10, 1/11 (SEE PREVIOUS POSTS BELOW)
1/12,13 (IN THE LAND OF OBLIVION UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE FROM DEAR NEPHEW)

1/14, FRIDAY…TEMPERATURES ROSE PASSED FREEZING AND A SMALL AMOUNT OF THAWING BROUGHT US BEAUTIFULLY LONG ICICLES…TOOK THIS SHOT OF THE BACKPORCH ‘BIG EGG’ COUNTER…
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MORE 1/14…FINALLY...CAPTURED 'SIR CARDINAL' AS HE WAS LOOKING FOR FOOD…NEVER GOT A GOOD SHOT OF HIS LADY FRIEND.
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EVEN MORE 1/14…WAS ABLE TO LEAVE THE HOUSE AND MEET bs&k WITH HER BELOVED AT A LOCAL EATERY AND ENJOY SOME GIRLTIME AS WE CHOWED DOWN ON ‘SKINNY TACOS’ AND ‘TACO SALADS’ (HAD VERDE WITH MINE Winking smile
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THE LAST 1/14 SHOT…THE SKIES WERE SOOOOO BLUE FOLLOWING THE SNOW/ICE STORM…MY RIVER BIRCH IS SO NAKED RIGHT NOW AND I LOVE HOW IT REACHES TO HEAVEN…DOESN’T IT LOOK LIKE INVERTED LITTLE BIRDY FEET AND LEGS POINTING TO THE SKY?
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1/15, SATURDAY    ONE OF OUR FRIENDS LOST HIS SISTER EARLIER THIS WEEK TO CANCER… I READIED MY FOOD, HUBS AND I SIGNED THE CARD AND HE KINDLY TOOK IT.


HUBS CAME HOME SAYING ANOTHER FRIEND LOST HIS SPECIAL NEEDS SISTER, TOO.  IT’S GOING TO BE A ROUGH WEEK FOR BOTH THESE FAMILIES.  

I REMEMBER HOW DIFFICULT IT WAS THE MONTHS FOLLOWING MY DADDY'S DEATH… 
PRAY FOR GOD’S SPECIAL HAND TO COMFORT BOTH THESE FAMILIES.
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WE HAVE HOPE IN THE LOVE OF CHRIST....

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

SNawesomeOW, 1.11.11 (continuing COLD)

CLICK EACH PIC FOR A LARGER VIEW...

OUR LAST 'REALLY BIG' SNOW WAS IN 1993...WE HAD A BLIZZARD AND HAD 3-FOOT DRIFTS...
MONDAY WE RECEIVED 5-6 INCHES WITH ALOT OF EXTRA ICE...SHUT THE CITY DOWN, FOR SURE.  THIS WAS MY FRONT PORCH...
THE LOCAL TEENS GOT INTO THE ACT WITH SOME SLEDS IN ONE OF THE NEIGHBOR'S YARDS...THEY HAVE A VERY LARGE HILL THAT RUNS DOWN BETWEEN THE HOUSES

I LOVED THE ICICLES THAT I FOUND OFF THE FRONT PORCH IRONWORK...ABOUT 18" OR SO...

DECIDED TO MEASURE THE BACK PORCH...THIS WAS THE 'LEAST' WE HAD...THE FRONT WAS DEEPER.

MY DECK WAS A FLUFFY SIGHT...

 I ESPECIALLY LOVED SEEING THE EVERGREENS COVERED IN SNOW...REMINDS ME OF DENVER
AND OUR RESIDENT WOODPECKER WAS BUSY HUNTING FOR FOOD...HE KEPT STAYING BEHIND THE TREE...UNFORTUNATELY, THIS WAS THE BEST SHOT I GOT.

TRIED MY HAND AT USING MY 'PANARAMIC VIEW' ON MY CAMERA...YOU ACTUALLY TAKE A SHOT AND PIECE IT WITH THE NEXT SHOT THEN IT JOINS THEM ALL TOGETHER...NOT TOO BAD

THIS LITTLE GUY WAS BUSY CLEANING HIMSELF ON ONE OF THE BRANCHES OF MY LARGE BUSH IN THE BACKYARD...I WAS ABOUT 40 YARDS FROM HIM AND HAD TO USE MY BIGGEST ZOOM...

I JUST LOVE SNOW...THE KIDS ARE OUT OF SCHOOL AGAIN TOMORROW...SO, THE NEXT THING WE'LL BE HEARING IS HOW DISAPPOINTED THAT THEY WILL HAVE TO MAKE UP ALL THE DAYS THEY'VE MISSED SO FAR.  OH, WELL...I'LL ENJOY THE WHITE STUFF UNTIL IT'S COM,PLETELY GONE.

Jer. 33:3
"Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know."   Blessings,