With snow falling and blowing this evening, I think I will just snuggle in a blanket and watch some movies instead of venturing out on the town for any of the new year festivities.
Snowing at the End
The rain yesterday created a lot of ice once the temperatures plummeted again. My driveway is rather slippery and even inside the garage, where the rain dripped off my car, has some icy patches on the floor. An icy floor is fine for the ice caves but not where I need to walk or drive.
Icy Cave Floor
The summer flowers seem so far away when snowing is falling this evening and the predicted rain tomorrow won’t sprout blooms when the ground is frozen. There are 325 species and 50,000 registered varieties of irises. The iris earned its name from the ancient Greek Goddess Iris, a messenger to the gods who was thought to use the rainbow as a bridge between heaven and earth. On a winter day, a picture of an iris is a bridge to summer.
One Iris
Back in the olden days, when school let out for the Christmas break, one of the tasks I had with my siblings was to cut the Christmas tree. But it had to be a “special” pick and not in the good way. We had planted pine trees for a windbreak and the ones we were allowed to cut were ones crowding out another tree so normally they were flat on one side or something else wrong with it. But the flat sided Charlie Brown tree worked well tight against the wall. Every year though, the tree seemed to grow five feet from the time we cut it until we got it in the house! This tree would have fit in with the Charlie Brown tree theme without a center leader to mount the star on, but would work if you couldn’t decide on an angel or star for the top and wanted both, if only you could figure out how to attach them to the twin side branches.
Charlie Brown Christmas Tree