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I'm an elderly retired teacher who writes. Among my books are Ferradiddledumday (Appalachian version of the Rumpelstiltskin story), Stuck (middle grade paranormal novel), Patches on the Same Quilt (novel set in Franklin County, VA), Them That Go (an Appalachian novel), Miracle of the Concrete Jesus & Other Stories, and several Kindle ebooks.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Today's Snow

The Beginning

Today's weather began as a drizzly rain, then turned to sleet, then to hard rain, and then to snow. Here's what the beginning snow looked like at 1:00 PM:

The backyard


The front yard

The sidewalk

Foxy, the senior cat, watches the snow.

Foxy decides inside is the place to be.

I'll update this post later today to show how the snow progresses.

Later

A little later, this is how the weather event was progressing—ice, then big snow flakes:


Foxy ventured out—but not for long.
 Then more ice:


For a few minutes, the sun tried to break through.

At 3:00 PM, following snow, rain, ice, sleet, more snow, etc., this is how things looked:





Notice the ice on the pine needles?
 And my attitude to this whole snowy situation:



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1 Comments:

Blogger CountryDew said...

I'm with you! I have things to do tomorrow and need to be able to get out without worry.

4:29 PM  

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