Browncoat Portrait Gallery: the sequel

POSTED BY: PhoenixRose
UPDATED: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 14:47
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CAUSAL

Sunday, February 25, 2007 2:33 PM

Scene from my front window last night:

Scene this morning:

And still snowing!

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PENGUIN

Sunday, February 25, 2007 3:12 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Causal:
Scene from my front window last night:

Scene this morning:

And still snowing!

Looks the same here!

Did you lose power last night??? I lost it for 2+ hours...mighty quiet!

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

CAUSAL

Sunday, February 25, 2007 3:25 PM

Haven't lost power so far, knock on wood; we did have a couple of flickers, though. This morning I went about taking photos and heard a mighty loud crack followed by a muffled thump: a 15-foot branch snapped off the tree behind my house. Good thing I was done with the photos back there!

Isn't the mythical snow fun?

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PENGUIN

Sunday, February 25, 2007 3:27 PM

It's fun to watch, but I'll have to go out and scoop sometime today!

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

PENGUIN

Sunday, February 25, 2007 4:23 PM

My crabapple tree...

My poor car!

The view from my deck...

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

HELL'S KITTEN

Sunday, February 25, 2007 4:33 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Penguin:
Quote:
Originally posted by Causal:
Scene from my front window last night:
{snowy pic shoveled out by HK}

Scene this morning:
{2nd snow pic shoveled out by HK}

And still snowing!
Looks the same here!

And here, as well.

Although, with all the preceding news reports and weather warnings, I was hoping for something more apocalyptic than just a few sissy inches of snow. Doesn't even make driving exciting. Bah.

PHOENIXROSE

Sunday, February 25, 2007 4:54 PM

*looks up at snow*

Meh.

You have my sympathy. Kind of.

This picture was taken two months ago; it's my house two days after the first storm. We had a storm a week for the next... seven or eight weeks. All that crap turned to ice (seriously, solid ice that I could walk on with perfect security) and is only now, very slowly, melting away. Yesterday I was able to get into my parking space without parallel parking between two mounds of ice three feet high for the first time since the new year. Hell, for the first time since my birthday. It has been a freakishly, freakishly bad winter. All the ski buffs who were so excited about it couldn't even get up to the slopes for a good week.

So... Meh.

Sorry if I seem cranky. I'm really tired of being cold (seems like I've only felt properly warm in the shower for three months), driving through clouds, shoveling snow that weighs on my arms like bricks, and top it all off with gale-force winds yesterday trying to blow my car off the road. I am not a very happy phoenix when it comes to weather. I'm not very happy about a lot of things, but particularly the weather.

(That's my stepdad in the picture, BTW. He's super-human, apparently, and probably moved literally tons of snow in December alone)

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

PENGUIN

Sunday, February 25, 2007 5:30 PM

Nope...I wouldn't trade snow with you for the world!

It is pretty, though...

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

PHOENIXROSE

Sunday, February 25, 2007 5:36 PM

Hehehe, yours is prettier
Seriously, I love the way the trees look. I wish I could have gotten a picture of what the freezing fog did to the trees here, but of course every time fog rolled in I was at work sans camera, and by the time I got home, got the camera, and drove back out to areas with large trees, the sun was up, the cloud mostly burned away, and the perfect white coating of frost already melting. That was pretty. Hell to drive through the fog, though.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

CAUSAL

Sunday, February 25, 2007 6:28 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
Seriously, I love the way the trees look. I wish I could have gotten a picture of what the freezing fog did to the trees here, but of course every time fog rolled in I was at work sans camera, and by the time I got home, got the camera, and drove back out to areas with large trees, the sun was up, the cloud mostly burned away, and the perfect white coating of frost already melting. That was pretty. Hell to drive through the fog, though.

Just for you:

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