Still Snowy

[olivermoss]

My plans for going out to day have been scrapped as the grocery stores are either closed due to power outages, or only open for 30 more minutes. So much for that. I've been watching people struggle through the un-shoveled sidewalks all day. One of my neighbors got his car out by clearing a section of the street and piling it on ... piling it on the sidewalk. My east coaster brain hurt watching that kind of behavior.

Anyway, I tried taking some pictures through my window.

Tiny birb on an ice-bent birch tree:



The tree:

Comments

[dine]

nice pictures! I'm so glad I stayed indoors today - sounds like you were wise to do so as well

[olivermoss]

It felt silly to still be inside with the sun shining and things warming up, but it's still a mess out there.

[kaffy_r]

It looks as if you got one heck of an ice storm; I really felt sorry for that robin! Here in Chicago we have a metric ton of snow coming down, but no ice, so I'm going to consider us relatively lucky. And at least we're used to it. Sigh.

[olivermoss]

We really did! Some had melted by the time I took pics.

Portland/Portlanders just don't know how to handle weather like this. Looks like other places have it worse, though.

[kaffy_r]

I was talking to my son up in Seattle; they had a couple of days of snow, several inches' worth, but he said much or most of it had melted as the temps went up into the low 40s. He's a Chicago kid, so the snow wasn't throwing him off his game too much, but I can guess that the rest of Seattle was in a tizzy.

[olivermoss]

I'm from Connecticut. I can handle bad weather if I need to. But it's pretty messy between people not shoveling sidewalks and people being idiots. Also we have a lot of transplants who don't get that our roads being unbanked and having a smoother surface means that it's nothing like driving in the snow in Montana.

[kaffy_r]

between people not shoveling sidewalks and people being idiots.

Agreed. We have the same thing around here. I grew up in Nova Scotia, so we share the background of knowing how to deal with cold, and with snow - and with both at the same time, which brings a different kind of problem than just cold, or just snowy.

[mistressofmuses]

Robin!

Ice makes for such striking pictures. (I'm sorry it's likely the end of the tree, but it looks cool.)

I love how delicate everything in that last picture looks, too.