A Foot And A Half of Snow and Seven Degrees In The Shade

7:58

A Fat Happy Cardinal

Dusk

Snow Shoeing Victoria

Up at 6:30 and Shane has already plowed the road, cleared our parking space.  He's very efficient this year, with a new truck.  We must have gotten six or seven inches of snow last night, at least that's what it looks like on my car.  More expected during the day, into the evening, then supposedly it will taper off for a few days.  It is just beginning to lightened up, so I can make out the snow covered lake, the far shore, a dark band above the snow, beneath the gray sky.  No animal tracks in the front yard, just markings where snow must have fallen from the trees.

Yesterday, I did venture out early, to go to yoga, with only two of us there.  The roads were cleared though snow covered, as was the Woodlawn area, so if you took your time, it was not bad driving.  Traffic was spare though it was after rush hour, about 9:30.  Most of yesterday's snow seemed to have fallen overnight, as it did last night.  During the day, we had a few snow flurries but that's about it.  Because it was so cold out, a 7º outside temperature translate to about 15º below zero with wind chill, at least that's what it is at the moment according to NPR.  It makes it a bit scary to go out side for a long period of time.

I did strap on my snow shoes for a walk in Victoria woods for about a half an hour.  It was tough going   because the snow was at least a foot deep but wonderful to be in the woods, no sounds, a few animal tracks, the tree trunks and branches frosted with snow.  Surprisingly, I did not feel cold, perhaps because there was little wind and I even worked up a sweat by the time I got home.

I am feeling a bit of cabin fever, afraid to go out because of the treacherous roads or blizzard like conditions or the wind chill if I walk.  It is getting up to 15º today, warming up I after yesterday's high of around 7º.  So I sit cosy in my house, with a good book, the radio, and tea and wait out the day, so to speak.  The sky has just opened some, I can see blue sky, some sunlight above the trees, as the day begins.

For dinner, I made tacos, easy, just brown some ground beef, add the mixture, heat the tacos, cut up some lettuce and tomatoes, and its ready and good.  I watched Traffic, an older movie I have always liked, from 2000 about the drug trade in between Mexico and California.  It was still a good film, amazing textures and colors, when shot in Mexico.  Michael Douglas starred in it as the US Drug Czar who finds his daughter is an addict and he must make the choice between family and career.  It's much more complicated than that, of course, with drug traffickers, much violence,  but Douglas and his family are the human side.

The sun has just peaked out from behind the clouds for a moment, filling the living room...amazing.  Now it's gone back to hiding.