A snow show!

Remember the ice storm? The next couple of days we had nice fluffy fresh snow on the ground and well, me being what I am, dressed up Snugli and took her out to play in the snow. And she did have a great time walking on the snow, sweeping it and what not! I should be thankful that she didn't try to stuff it all into her mouth :-D.






Remember 2 years ago, I had built a snowmom and child (I'm sure you'd not, so I'm giving the link :-p)? Last year I forgot to mention that I had made a cat :-D.




Yup, that was within 3 months of delivering Snugli :-p.

Well this year wanted to do something to continue the tradition (:-p), so after taking Snugli inside, I again went outside to make this duck :).




Ah! Good times :).

Ice ice baby!

We are sorry to interrupt the ongoing trilogy for some breaking news (and to think it was going so well :-p). Since yesterday we the people in Lexington have been hit by a pretty bad winter storm. Not only is the temperature below 0 degree Celsius (right now it is -4 C), but everything outside our home is frozen. A few glimpses of the same..













Thankfully there have been no power outages in our area, though there were a few in other towns of Kentucky. The icy rain has stopped now and weather is hopefully going to be better from now on.

This has been a message from LWA - Live Weather Alert team of "Like Duck to water" :-D.

Snow snow everywhere..

It seems like Mother Nature has had her revenge on a person who has complained all season about there not being enough snow ;-). There's news that it will snow all this week. Nothing's going to make me regret for asking for snow, but the weather is so chilly that sometimes I have second thoughts :-D.

But snow is still a great photo opportunity, so I couldn't let it go, could I? So one day, dressed in 3 layers of clothes, I headed out to 'capture' the sights ;-). Here's our home and the lawn which is currently a field of snow..




My poor plants are dead (atleast as of now until they decide to grow back {cross my fingers}).




There is a Holly bush in front of our house and snow on its leaves makes a pretty sight :).




I took several more photos and decided to head back to the house. It was only when I put my hand on the door knob that I realized that I was locked out!! Well, I tried everything I could think off, but I didn't have a single paisa, err cent on me. All I had headed out with was my camera :-p. So what to do? I decided that the best thing to do was build a small snowman :-D.

The first thing I did was make a snowball.




Later grouped some snow on the ground to make the body. Placed the snowball I made like a head. By this time, my snow man was looking more like a "snow woman", so I made a bun like thing for her hair :-D. I used the dead plant's twigs for arms, holly fruits for eyes, a stub fo the nose and a small leaf for the mouth. Here's the result:




I had gone out for the photo session around evening, but still there was no sight of Sri. Whats a girl to do? I built a snow child for the snow mom :-D.




Here's the mom and baby together:




Finally after an hour of my getting locked out, my knight in shining armour came home to rescue me. I rewarded him by throwing a snowball at him and chiding him for coming home late >:) (I am a wicked one :-D). Poor guy, how was he to know that I was locked out? But we women are unreasonable sometimes. There, I have admitted to it ;-).

Well, another lesson learnt. Never will I leave the house without a key from now on :-p.

What is it? :)

What is it?

As I go out of the house for a walk,
I notice something falling from the sky.
Oh, my god, it is rain, I think,
I don't want to get wet as I walk by.

But they do not look like rain drops,
Rain is definitely not white in colour.
Are they many white insects, I ask,
rushing past, 'cause of the cold weather?

One of the white things touches my face.
Its not an insect, for it doesn't fly away.
Maybe they are cotton bits, I wonder,
Maybe some flew out of a truck going my way?

But cotton is certainly not cold
And does not feel like crushed powdered ice.
They were snow flakes, all along I knew, but
wrote a poem, as prose just wouldn't suffice.

Hehehehee. Kinda silly poem I know (sounds almost desperate to be a poem :-D). But there was no other way I thought I could justice to my first snowfall. The flurries are very hard to describe. I can only say that they feel very nice. They feel like a shower of oh-so-soft small cold thermocole balls :). But they look like small strands of cotton. You long to catch them, but most of them are so light that they sway to and fro with the slightest breeze. Even if you do manage to catch one or two, they melt in a matter of seconds leaving you with nothing. But I honestly had a wonderful time trying to catch a few. The snowflakes I have seen till now have been very slight (haven't seen heavy snow fall yet, so looking forward to it) and thats why its difficult to catch them :).

The snow deposit has also been only upto 1 to 3 inches, so no snowmen/women till now. January is supposed to be the coldest in Kentucky and thats when max snow fall is expected, so my first snowman (or something looking like a snowman) will be built only then ;-). There's one post definitely due when that happens :).