{January 12, 2011}

And the snow keeps coming and coming and coming and...you get the picture. New England has, once again, been hit by a blizzard, however, this time over 16" have fallen at our house. Even now at 3:00 p.m. there aren't any signs of the snow letting up and I'm hoping that the weather forecasters have it correct in that we should see an end to the madness by 6:00'ish. The kids are out of school and we've been weathering the storm nicely with a fire roaring in the woodstove, mint chocolate hot cocoa with whipped cream, and a couple of DVR'd shows. I dug out our birds first thing this morning and am headed out to dig them out again after I post this. Our dog Kya LOVES it and has been begging to go out pretty much all day just so she can run around the fluffy stuff despite it coming up to the top of her shoulders. Lexi, on the other hand, prefers to stay indoors by the fire and thinks that going outside in this mess is crazy talk. Today I'm bending the rules a bit in that when I awoke this morning I realized that the trees I photographed yesterday for the "before" shot do not have many needles/leaves on them. As such it doesn't look much different today--save for the rising snow levels around the trunks. I snapped another shot the two bushes in front of our house. To give you an idea of how deep it is, the space between the bottom of the bush on the "left" to the ground is over 2.5'. There is a walkway buried underneath everything and as much as I hate to say it, this time it looks like we won't get away with not shoveling this section. Sigh...is it spring yet?

On to the pics...{click to view full size}