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In My Neighborhood This Morning

Well, it looks like the snow has finally ended. In My Neighborhood This Morning everything is covered with a thick layer of snow. The depth of the snow is astonishing. This is what the side of our driveway looks like. I cannot see our mailbox from the house because of the height of the snow in our yard. Thank God for snow blowers and my husband who can still wield our snow blower. I would not be able to shovel all of the heavy wet snow we got. Where we live, the streets are wide and parking on the street Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Winter Wonderland Again!

It’s unusual to the kind of snowstorm that leaves everything coated in thick layers of snow this time of year. Usually this kind of winter wonderland arrives in March and quickly disappears. But this morning I awoke to Winter Wonderland Again in January after a previous storm that left everything coated in snow for days just a couple of weeks ago. For those who have to drive somewhere in this snow, it’s no fun. It’s dangerous and slow-going when the roads are coated with snow and the snow keeps coming. I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Angels Among Us

A friend told me a story yesterday of a shuttle driver she met on a recent trip to New Orleans. While she and her husband were riding to the airport in the shuttle, the driver made two short unscheduled stops. Each time he reached into an ice chest beside him and gave a sandwich and bottle of water to a man who met him at  the shuttle driver’s window. They shared a blessing together and then the shuttle driver drove on. Hearing stories like this makes me believe that there are Angels Among Us doing what they can to spread Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Hoar Frost

When I looked out the windows this morning, all the trees were covered with white. At first I thought snow must have fallen during the night. But as I looked at the world around our house I realized that everything was covered with Hoar Frost! When hoar frost forms, it doesn’t last long. By noon most of it was gone. As I gazed with joy at the white coated world outside I wondered what conditions caused hoar frost to form. So I looked it up. {hoar frost} forms when the water vapor in the air comes into contact with solid Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Morning Walk With Camera

Morning Walk With Camera On this mild late December morning I took a walk in the neighborhood with my camera. The skies were cloudy and the landscape somewhat stark with lots of white snow covering the ground and dark bare trees and bushes along the way. We have finally lost the beautiful coating of frozen snow on everything that created such a winter wonderland all around us. All things are meltable, and replaceable. Not at this moment, but soon enough, we are lambs and we are leaves, and we are stars, and the shining, mysterious pond water itself. ― Mary Read more…

By Marilyn, ago