Sticky

You never know what Mother Nature will throw at you. Last night I had to go to a meeting after work for the Building Committee at the children’s centre. The meeting was at 5pm and so I left work at 4:30 just as ice rain was starting to fall. The normally short drive took 3 times as long as we were travelling a third of the normal speed. I just rolled with it. No big deal, I’m not in a hurry. But while at the meeting I was anxiously looking out the window as the ice rain turned to snow. A lot of snow. I mean, not really a lot, just 3 inches or so, but it came SO fast.

Luckily, it stopped just as I was headed home at 7pm, but the drive home was a white knuckle ride, mostly due to other people’s stupidity. Once home I shovelled the driveway. Yes that’s right. I have a large shovel and I drive my power chair with one hand and use the shovel like a plough with the other. My dad does edge cleanup and we’re done in no time flat.

As my dad headed in and I was putting the shovels away, I was feeling pretty good. It was the first time I had slowed down all day. I sat out in the driveway for a couple minutes, suddenly realizing what a beautiful night it was. It really wasn’t very cold, and the snow was wet and sticky and had coated every single surface with a thick layer of white. The air was crisp and clean and it seemed so quiet out. You could hear voices far off in the distance and a shovel or two scraping a walkway. Remembering I had yet to eat dinner, I  headed in to make myself a grill cheese sandwich and a scrambled egg. Not really a great dinner, but at 8pm, I didn’t want anything heavy.

This morning as I left for work saw how beautiful everything looked, I just had to take a few pictures. Having heard the terrible news by then about the tornadoes that devastated the southern US yesterday, I wondered if the same weather pattern that had wreaked such havoc was also responsible for the beautiful display I was snapping pictures of.  You never know what Mother Nature will throw at you.

This picture is of our front sideyard.

 These next two I thought were cool to put together. These are birdhouses in our backyard, albeit from a slightly different angle. One was taken by Kelly last summer, the other by me this morning. (the summer one was swiped from Kelly’s blog)