snowy day

Snowy Day
SOLD

Can't you just see everybody snug inside the house

putting up the Christmas decorations?

Escape - Yes it's still Cold! - Day 5

Hibiscus

I will just ignore the continuing cold weather for today!

Day 4 - Freezy Biscuit Weather!

HELP!

I've fallen and I can't get up!

In response to a different challenge to paint a polar bear

and to illustrate just how cold it is

STILL

This little guy "posed" for a portrait.

The truth is he's fallen on the slippery ice

and can't manage to get up and going again.

(his butt is getting numb)

"Freezy Biscuits" is the expression I used 

to let my kids know it was cold out.

(cold enough to freeze your butt off)

Pam , this is what polar bears look like in their natural environment.

Snow and ice everywhere and temperatures that make a fur coat

a requirement for survival.

 

Memories

For a brief moment, I miss the wild snow storms and bitter winds of my childhood winters. Knee high boots weren't so much a fashion statement as a necessity. Walking through deep drifts of blown snow, hauling a toboggan up the best hill for sledding, having snowball fights, building snow/ice forts and refusing to go in the house until your hands and feet were numb.

It was a winter wonderful land.

I miss the feet of snow, the deep quiet that only happens in winter, the cold crisp air and how it feels to inhale. Where are the sounds of icicles dripping or crashing off the roof and the rush of bitter cold when you step into a slush puddle?

OK the moment is over.

I'm really alright with fog and rain and the ferns and mosses taking over everything that doesn't move.

What was I thinking?