Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Blizzard 2011

Brrrrrr!  It is cold outside and it's been snowing since about 10:00 last night (it is now 11:15am).  There is so much snow outside . . . never really thought this Texas girl would be snowed in or caught in a blizzard, but here we are.  When I open the blinds to look out the windows now, the bottom third of the window is covered with snow.  So, since I am "snowed in" today, I think it will be a good day to watch movies and perhaps take out the wedding scrapbook that I have yet to complete and work on it.  Kinda wishing we had a fireplace today . . . it would be nice.  Unfortunately, Andrew is planning on going to work today (apparently he has something to do that'll take 8 hours and HAS to be done today) but I'm not sure that's gonna happen.  Certainly not before the snow has stopped or the parking lot has been plowed.  Anyway, here are some photos of the blizzard!

out of our bedroom window

tree outside our bedroom window

bikes on our patio

looking out to the parking lot from our patio - my car is in the middle, Andrew's car is on the right

Tanner looking at the snow out of our patio door

bush covered in snow

from our patio

hurrying to get back inside - snow is too cold!!

puppy paw prints

sweet Tanner's pawprints

wind chime covered in snow

tree with snow on the branches

on our patio

utility door on our patio - to give you some perspective of the depth of the snow

outside our bedroom window

outside our bedroom window

tree outside of our bedroom window

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!

Yesterday afternoon it started snowing . . . and snowing  . . . and snowing until finally around 9:00 or so it stopped.  It was coming down pretty heavily (as you can see) for most of that time.  Now, most of you know that I adamantly do NOT like snow - at least not the snow you get up here.  Texas snow I'm fine with...the kind of snow that goes away.  I don't like the snow that sticks around forever! But, I will say that for the first day or so, it is quite beautiful.  So, I (of course) took lots of pictures.  They vary in time to when the snow first started, to a few hours into it, to last night after it had stopped, to this morning and what the world looks like covered in snow during the day.  I think one of the things I'll miss when our time in Connecticut is up will be the look of everything covered in snow right after a big snowstorm like the one we had last night.  Gorgeous!  Enjoy the photos, and remember Texas folk, while you may be jealous now, I have to look at this snow for probably about 2 more months before it starts (yes, I said starts) to melt! ;o)



while it was still snowing

still snowing . . .

snowing . . .

snowing . . .

snowing . . .

snowing . . . this was towards the beginning of the snow - some of this snow was already there from over Christmas break

snowing . . .

I love the look of snow covered branches.  so pretty


outside our patio

outside our patio

look at all of that snow!  my car is the one in the middle...it was there for the whole snowstorm!

gorgeous!

this morning around the complex

this morning around the complex

this morning around the complex

this morning around the complex

this morning around the complex

this morning around the complex

beautiful



snow covered tree


snow covered berries
so pretty - winter at its finest!

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

New York City Christmas Decorations

wreath on the MetLife building
When we went down to the City for NYE, we enjoyed getting to see all of the Christmas decorations that were up.  NYC is beautiful at Christmas.  Enjoy the photos!

us







tree inside MetLife building





Rockefeller Tree