Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Winter Wonderland

We got our first substantial snow last night, as in, the school's were delayed opening two hours, and I got to stay home from work. I think we ended up with six inches of beautiful powder. Makes me want to go skiing, except for the fact that Indiana is so flat.

Our Black Lab, Charlie, was so funny when I let him out this morning. He pranced around the snow in the back yard like a horse, clearing trying to figure out what had happened and what he was supposed to do with this stuff.

For my part, I sat in the parking lot last night with my Starbucks watching these perfect snowflakes fall in the light of the lampposts, looking like glittery sugar and watching their perfect little snowflake selves on my windshield. I know my goal this winter will be to get pictures of snowflakes.




But for now, you get the oak tree in my front yard and some mock cherry bush in my back yard. I was hoping it'd keep it's bright red leaves when it snowed because I think that would look so pretty, but alas it was not to be.



On another note, this is a picture of the tree of boxes that is our Advent calendar. When you pull the box out with the date (and eat the chocolate inside!) you reverse the box and put it back in to make some sort of scene. The kids love it. Me too, actually.

4 comments:

~michelle pendergrass said...

I didn't take any pictures today, I was reading this great story... :)

Sabrina L. Fox said...

I thought of you all today. How are you liking the snow? And driving in the snow? :) Hope the kids are loving their Indiana winter. =)

Georgiana Daniels said...

That's a big change from the desert! Even we don't have snow like that...or at all.

Jenny said...

Some days I miss the snow, then I step outside and decide it makes a better memory:-)
Beautiful pics, BTW. And I can just see Charlie having fun.
That's a great Advent calendar, too. Never seen one like it.
Give the kidlets a hug.