This last week we have been buried under a blanket of pristine, beautiful, fluffy snow. I think God granted my wish for snow this year in spadefuls! In total I think we got about 9 inches of snow, though we never officially measured because it would pack down and then snow some more. Some places had much more, and had drifts of 8 feet, or power outages (like my sister and her family! :( . We did have a few days of cabin fever when it was a little unsafe to be out and about. But overall, we are loving our life in a snow globe!
John and I could just stare at it for hours. Watching flakes softly drift in a cascade of frosty light is so poetically beautiful. The silence that cloaks the air feels tangibly peaceful. We watched as day after day the accumulating snow weighed down the towering evergreens until their branches surrendered to the weight of their snowy parcels. The piles and mounds of brilliant white everywhere, blanketing bushes and mailboxes, tree branches and roofs, almost looked like thick dollops of frosting that should be sampled with the lick of a finger.
A white landscape, inches deep with the possibilities of sledding, snowballs, snow-angels and snowmen called out to us, but we discovered that we were alone in our excitement. Ben hates the snow!! He didn't want to go out in it, didn't want to touch it or stand in it, and he really didn't want to taste it! At one point John and my dad and I went out back to satiate our desire to build a snowman and my mom and Ben watched from inside. John dove onto a pile of snow to make a snow-angel and Ben just lost it. He screamed and cried, I think because he thought his Daddy and fallen down and the snow had hurt him!
Well, he may not love snow, but he has made his peace with it, because of our snowman. Once it had a face and limbs and a hat, Ben thought it was a person, and now throughout the day he stops to run to the window and wave at it and talk to our "Mr. Snowman".
The snow started melting today, and it is making a royal mess. The massively tall evergreens around our house are dropping huge loads of snow onto our roof and windows and I have to keep myself from jumping and not thinking that someone is breaking in every time they hit! Standing outside it looks like a vertical snowball fight between the trees and the ground. I think the trees are winning. Driving in it is even more tricky, with chunky, slushy grooves and tracks everywhere. But if driving in it is tricky, pushing a grocery cart through it at the store is nearly impossible! It was a sight to see me holding Ben, and dragging our cart full of groceries behind us as it bounced around and continually got stuck in the trenches of icy snow. So since it isn't quite as pretty today, I am enjoying the following pictures of how it has looked the last week.....
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| my view while doing dishes...not too shabby! |
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| The Snowman Crew! (it actually took a lot of work, because the snow was so dry and fluffy, it wouldn't stick together!) |
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| saying "hi" to Mr. Snowman with Grandma |
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| our front walk, and what used to be bushes! |
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| Frosted Evergreens! |
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| view from an upstairs window looking out the front of our house |
This video shows the snow and Ben's distaste for it....but hold onto your seats, because John gives you a dizzying tour of the neighborhood.
I took this video, after getting dizzy and nauseous from watching John's. Enjoy the slower view. :) The video and pictures really don't do it justice---it's a LOT of snow!
Happy Snowy New Year to you all!
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