Apparently when I turned the calendar yesterday, I must have turned it to December instead of May because with the eighteen inches of new snow, it looks more like winter than May!
Winter in May
Picture of the Day for April 15, 2013
The RMS Titanic, a British passenger liner, sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning on April 15, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg the previous evening just before midnight during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City.
Yesterday it wasn’t an ice berg, but ice did cause a ‘sinking’ when the power lines and trees became encased in ice. When the heavy limbs broke from the freezing rain, it took power lines down causing a power outage.
The remaining passengers and crew aboard the Titanic when she sank were plunged into lethally cold water with a temperature of only 28°F. Almost all of those in the water died of hypothermia, cardiac arrest, or drowning within minutes. Even though the temperature was below freezing yesterday, at least my house didn’t get that cold before the power was restored.
Icy Day
Picture of the Day for March 25, 2013
Ode to Snow
You arrived sparkly bright
On a chilly winter day
Covering the ground all white
Showing you were here to stay.
First it was pretty and nice
But the piles grew and grew.
Time now for needed reprieve;
Weary of slippery ice
And the snow that blew and blew.
It is time for you to leave!
SAE 3/25/13
Picture of the Day for February 6, 2013
Seeing frost on the trees this morning and with snow is falling now, winter is definitely still here. With snow every day this month and the weather forecasters saying significant snow for this weekend, I do believe my groundhog was correct – it will be a long winter!
Morning Frost
Picture of the Day for January 31, 2013
After several days of snowy, icy conditions and now several cold days on tap with -20 to -35 wind chills, I think it is about time that this ‘not so nice’ weather hit the tracks and head on out of here and let some color return to the landscape again.
Hit the Tracks
Picture of the Day for January 29, 2013
It is strange hearing thunder and watching the snow light up with the lightning on a winter night. And while that might be pretty to watch, seeing the freezing rain was not and now it is very difficult walk on the slippery ice and the trees are coated with ice.
Icy Trees
Picture of the Day for January 21, 2013
Waking up to a wee bit nippy morning with air temps at -17 degrees Fahrenheit and a wind chill of -45, I think my face frosted up like these trees when I went out to fill the bird feeders. But is it a sunny day – a very deceiving sunny day!
Frosty Chilly Morning
Picture of the Day for December 21, 2012
With the official calendar start of winter, it did look like winter but at least the sun was shining. But a shining sun in winter time normally means crisp, cold air and it was rather nippy out today.
Start of Winter
Picture of the Day for December 20, 2012
The new snow covered the pine trees so they are pretty white again but it wasn’t so pretty clearing the driveway when the snow was blowing in my face. So I think I rather see the trees in the summer instead of looking at the snow in the below zero wind chills.
Green instead of White
Picture of the Day for December 10, 2012
The snow might be pretty to look at but it wasn’t so ‘pretty’ when it came time to start shoveling out the driveway.
Pretty Snow
