Ice Storm Pic Spam!!!
Mar. 20th, 2007 07:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ink_n_impThose that know me, you've probably heard my tirade against Winter. My rant against Snow. My treatise on the Morally Degenerative Affects of Freezing Temperatures (ok, so I've never written THAT, but I've wanted to). Winter and Nella do not mesh well.
HOWEVER…even I have to admit that sometimes, ON OCCASION, Winter can make things fucking beautiful.
Saturday my family and I had deal with the unfortunate leftovers of an ice storm--the one major downside of home is that our house is on a hill, which means we have a very long, very STEEP driveway that is nigh impossible to drive on should it ice up. So, armed with shovels and picks, we spent all of Saturday hacking free our only escape route.
First, a romp around the backyard.
Everything looks so…PURE and CLEAN!
The iced-up, wee little tree in the foreground? That's the poor, poor tree from Maryland my aunt gave us. I shed a tear for the abuse it has suffered at the hands of New York weather.
One of the Japanese maples. Likewise looks VERY unhappy.
The fruit trees.
This is my very favorite shot, and is my new background on my desktop, again of the fruit trees.
So, feel like you've taken a quick jaunt out of your time period yet?
Well, that's the backyard. Now to the front!
Yep. Those are Candy canes on the light posts. We forgot we still had those up from Christmas.
And then, the Sun came out!!
HOWEVER…even I have to admit that sometimes, ON OCCASION, Winter can make things fucking beautiful.
Saturday my family and I had deal with the unfortunate leftovers of an ice storm--the one major downside of home is that our house is on a hill, which means we have a very long, very STEEP driveway that is nigh impossible to drive on should it ice up. So, armed with shovels and picks, we spent all of Saturday hacking free our only escape route.
First, a romp around the backyard.
Everything looks so…PURE and CLEAN!
The iced-up, wee little tree in the foreground? That's the poor, poor tree from Maryland my aunt gave us. I shed a tear for the abuse it has suffered at the hands of New York weather.
One of the Japanese maples. Likewise looks VERY unhappy.
The fruit trees.
This is my very favorite shot, and is my new background on my desktop, again of the fruit trees.
So, feel like you've taken a quick jaunt out of your time period yet?
Well, that's the backyard. Now to the front!
Yep. Those are Candy canes on the light posts. We forgot we still had those up from Christmas.
And then, the Sun came out!!
