Dark When The Snow Falls

Well, we've had our first real sign of winter in the big frozen north land. This morning we woke up to see heavy snow falling outside our window, and it really hasn't quit since! It's definitely lighter now, but we're watching football anyway, so it's ok. ;) (Roll Tide!)

We didn't get out much to enjoy it today, as Pete was studying and I'm still not up to full mobility after hurting my knee last week, but I did take a few pictures on our street. It's still crazy to us how a snowfall doesn't shut down the entire city! People were still out today, walking and driving around to get their Christmas shopping done! I hear that sometimes a heavy snowfall will slow things down, but this didn't really even stick very much- just a bit on the trees and rooftops. It was definitely pretty though, and I really enjoyed watching it fall outside our big windows all day!

Here are a few pictures for you!

Pete took this from our living room window. The place next door is a nice restaurant and bar. Obviously they weren't using their patio today.

The courtyard in our building. It was closed because of weather (not sure what that means, but whatever), so I couldn't do much except take a picture through the window. But it looks nice.

This is looking the other way out of our living room window. The freezer and trash cans go with the restaurant, and the rest of the buildings are pretty typical row houses.

I had to go out to Target this afternoon... it really wasn't as bad as I had feared it would be, for a Saturday in December. This is what we see as we're walking up the street.

Nerd alert! This is a shot of my laptop screen... the little boxes (calculator, weather, etc.) are part of a Mac program called Dashboard. It's also got a calendar and a clock. You set the weather box to your location and it shows you the forecast in your area with a picture of whatever the weather's doing. I pulled it up this morning and realized I'd never seen what it does when there's snow in the forecast! Isn't it pretty?

That's all for now. Stay warm, everybody!

(Oh, and if Rosie happens to be reading this, I hope you'll notice that my title comes from an Emmet Swimming album :) )