What a Difference a Day Makes!

What a beautiful sight to wake up to this morning. It truly is a Winter Wonderland! I haven't been outside yet, other than on my stoop to take the pictures, but I would guess that we got about a foot of snow!

The 2 cars in the driveway or are they giant marshmallows?
You don't realize just how many wires surround your house because they are up high, camouflaged by the trees. The snow has brought them way too low!


Puffy snow!
This is our Christmas tree. It was such a nice tree, we decided to stand it up in the garden for a while instead of throwing it out. Still looks fresh under all of that snow!
The firepit



I guess it will be time to get outside and shovel soon. Naaah. I'll wait a while!

On my way home from work today, I decided to stop and take some pictures of Twin Lakes. It was so pretty with all of the newly fallen snow from the afternoon. We're expecting a snow storm overnight.

It's hard to see but there's a bunch of ducks or geese way out there on the ice.

I just liked that log
The southern lake of Twin Lakes

Let's see what tomorrow brings!

Gardening Gone Wild Macro in a Jar contest entry

I have decided on which picture I would enter into the Gardening Gone Wild January Photo contest. The theme is "Macro in a Jar".

This months theme was a lot of fun. Getting out in the snow to take some of the pictures, well, my neighbors thought I was crazy! I am!

Macro in a Mason Jar

Today is a day off from work. I had gotten an email from a blog that I frequent with his pictures that he was considering entering into the Gardening Gone Wild Photo Contest.
http://www.gardeninggonewild.com/?p=15262#more-15262
The theme for January is "Macro in a Mason Jar". I had tried this over the summer when they first had that theme and it was actually a lot of fun. I had to give it a whirl again.
Being that it's freezing here, there are no flowers in the garden. I decided to use a cyclamen that PJ grew in the greenhouse for me. I'm sure he wouldn't be happy to know that I cut off a few of the flowers for the sake of a photo contest!
I took some pictures inside and then bundled up to take some outside... in the snow! I even put snow into the jars in some of the pictures but it's hard to tell.
I'm leaning towards entering the photo labeled "A". Thoughts?


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One of the fathers down the other end of my block were building a snowman yesterday. He had about 10 little kids that live all around him helping out with the snowman. As PJ and I passed, seeing them having so much fun made us miss when our kids were small.
Later on in the day, the sign went up!!! I love it! What a great sense of humor!

HAPPY 1-1-11 !!

What a beautiful day in New York. We still have tons of snow piled up and on the lawns but check out the temperature IN THE SHADE of my back yard!!! Just a GREAT way to start the new year!!!

BLIZZARD of 2010!

What a fierce storm we had between yesterday and today. It was the Blizzard of 2010 and it dumped approx 12.5" of snow here!
It started yesterday around 1:00 PM...
Looking out my front door!
Being that our tree stand ended up having a crack in it and our rug was all wet, I thought it was a perfect day to get the tree down. When it was standing there I realized that it would be such a waste to just throw the tree out. So I asked Scott what he thought of the idea of putting it in the garden to look pretty in the snow. Before I knew it, he grabbed it and started to go through the house with it!
He put it in the garden....

Notice the shorts and NO shoes!!!

Looking out my front window...

The next morning...

It was so windy last night (60-70MPH) that there were drifts all over the place.
across the street...
The stoop
I guess it's high time we got out to shovel!!!

Christmas Eve was a lot of fun. During the day, Scott and Alyssa made the dough for sugar cookies. They totally got into the festive mood with aprons and hats!

We went to EAB Plaza for our annual Christmas Eve picture. Brooke and Chris aren't here this year. We've added Dave to the pictures!
Alyssa and Dave
Alyssa and Scott
PJ, Me, Dave, Alyssa and Scott
PJ and I
After we left EAB Plaza, we drove home slowly to look at Christmas lights. We always stop at one of Scott's friends house to see the monstrosity. You can barely see the house. There's hundreds of those ugly blow up decorations on every inch of their lawn!

We ended the night with a nice dinner!