...AND MORE SNOW...WITH ICICLES!

If you either are living on the East Coast, or are following the weather on the East Coast, you know that NJ has been hit again, and again, and (guess what?) again with snow. It's been rather strange, and a great winter. We've had snow on the ground for over a month now, and about every week there's a new snowstorm that cancels something...today it's co-op. Therefore, I decided to use some of the extra time writing a blog and sharing some of the pictures that I took from the storm last Wednesday into Thursday. Wednesday's storm started morning and throughout the day became worse and worse, eventually canceling prayer meeting. Thursday morning it had pretty much stopped snowing, but the roads were pretty bad for the morning. Thankfully, Andrew and I were still able to have our dress rehearsal for our choir concert, which was on Saturday night (amidst light snow fall!)

Explanation to the the pictures above: The first is our back porch engulfed in snow, some of it from previous storms. The second is our front porch's view into the winter wonderland, and the third is of one of my favorite sights and I hope I can paint some day: the fresh snow on the trees.

I've discovered that this snow storm, and the days following it, were PERFECT conditions for icicles. We don't normally get icicles, but we, along with about everyone else on our street and neighborhood, received those growing spikes off of our roof. It's been warming up just above freezing during the day, which lets snow from the roof melt, making the icicles grow and dripping all the water onto our front step. Then, as the afternoon wares on, it dips below freezing again, and we have our own little ice skating rink...literally on our front step! The next day, once it's melted a little, Andrew normally gets out there and breaks it up, just in time for the cycle to start over again. Anyway, I found icicles the perfect photography objects:
Here's a shot of the front of the house's icicles.

I wish the camera had behaved and focused on the front icicle, but I still thought that it was a cool picture.

These two are two loners above the back porch. (Notice the snow still on the tree branches behind them...one of the most BEAUTIFUL parts of snow storms!)


I know I gave you the sensation of being among the icicles, but here's one from behind the icicles looking out.


Now for some more close ups (both on the front porch):
I love the design of the second one! God truly is an artist!

And for some reason, I took this one. Don't ask me why...I'll tell you anyway: I thought it was gorgeous and slightly ironic to have this icicle and the bright blue sky above it.

So there's an update on the weather and icicles in NJ. All the inhabitants of the snow engulfed house are doing well...one has been traveling the world (Daddy) and is now getting an unexpected visit to the family in Seattle as his flight into snow-ridden Newark was canceled. The rest of us are keeping busy with school and other such activities. I hope that you, my gentle readers, are doing well too! (Sorry. I've been waiting to call someone my gentle reader for a long time.)