Sun Rising Over Snow Covered Yard

Snow Covered Yard on Arriving Home

Evie's Garden

6:15

Sun Rising Over Long Point at 6:30

Up at 6:15, in time to see the sunrise at 6:22, a sky pink at the edges, the lake various shades of lavender.  It's good to wake up to my favorite view and I am surprised at how far to the north the sun has moved since we left two weeks ago.  In Scottsdale, it rose to the right of Ed's backyard and because of a wall, I could not see it rise above the hills.  In Lee's Summit, it rose out the back window, behind a neighbor's house so I could not see much there either.  Thus, it's always surprisingly to return home and watch it rise and grow in front of my eyes.  The yard still has some snow on it; a few tree branches are down, one breaking the wheel on my grill sitting in the back yard.  We were lucky though as one of our neighbors have a huge branch down in their front yard, a result I assume from the heavy snow on Monday.   It's 35 degrees out, going up to 53 so the snow should all be gone by the end of the day.  No martins to speak of yet though I saw a merganser yesterday on the lake.

Yesterday's ride was uneventful, as we left about 8:00, got home around 1:30, a five and a half hour ride, or 350 miles, 950 total from KC.  It was another beautiful morning to drive, all the way through Columbus, up route 71 to Cleveland, even out towards Erie.  Literally, as we hit Route 86 it clouded up and about Sherman, maybe 10 miles from our house, we ran into a brief snow storm, heavy snow, foggy, and hard to see for about five minutes.  We stopped at the post office in Lakewood, to get our mail and there was little if any snow.  But, when we headed down to Woodlawn, all the lawns were covered with about two or three inches of snow.  I had to move a couple of large branches from our driveway, which had fallen off our willow.  We unpacked quickly and relaxed most of the afternoon, happy to be back in our own home.  Evie got some meatballs out of the freezer, added pasta sauce and we had an easy dinner.  We caught up on some of missed TV shows and went to bed around 10:30, our usual time.  I am reading Pat Conroy's MY READING LIFE on my Kindle and am enjoying it.