You Capture: Cold

This week's You Capture theme is cold. Now, I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who got very creative with this one, and I can't wait to see their shots. I, however, mainly have photos of the sky on cold days.

Now, cold is relative to most folks, so you don't have to leave comments telling about how I don't know what cold is since I live in Georgia. (OK, you can leave those comments. I really won't mind. In fact, I will sympathize with you.) My husband and I lived in Montana near the Canadian border for nearly a year--we missed the summer months, of course, and I was told (rather apologetically) that it was the coldest winter in the previous ten years--so, yes, I do know what cold is. :)

We had a lot of gray, gloomy looking skies over the last week (or more).




And we even got some sleet.


After our gray skies and rainy weather, it was so good to see some blue sky peeking out from behind the clouds! These are some shots from Wednesday.





And then...

This morning we woke up to white stuff


and the kids were more than a little excited!


It's melting rapidly as I type, which means we can have a somewhat normal school day. I can't tell you how disappointed Josiah is because of this fact!

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Still with the snow and ice

Let's see...it started snowing on Sunday, so that makes this Day Seven with snow (ice) on the ground.


Which is at least five days too long for most of us in Georgia.


...Especially since there are still some icy stretches of road in the more rural parts of our area.


Even with the ice, it was wonderful to spend part of my time outside with no coat on, with the high reaching the upper 40s!

What's the weather like in your area?

All photos were taken on Day Seven, so I'm not joking about there still being snow and ice on the ground.

Snow days

After one week...OK, three days of school, we've had the week off (so far) because of snow!

Sunday evening.

Grace spent much of her time in short sleeve dresses, making the rest of us (or maybe it was just me) feel cold. When she wasn't dressed to go outside, she was in dress-up clothes.

Even on the first day, there was a lot of ice mixed in with the snow. These two were the only ones who braved the weather.

Well, besides these guys...

We improvised to get the ice off our driveway...



Banging our wooden broomstick handle on the ice helped break it up, especially on day three after everything froze over again. Our broom is a little shorter now. ;)

Day three: Playing in the snow became sliding on the ice.

Grace found a way to shimmy across the yard.

The quest to find the best places to slide in the yard.

On day three, we ventured out! We had planned to go to the library (a new branch near us just opened) but it was just as well that we didn't, because we needed the extra time to stand in line at the grocery store. Most of the roads we drove on were clear, but there were some icy patches here and there.


The undisturbed snow looked so pretty



but it was really all ice




which made for some good sliding down the hill at our church!

Josiah helping Grace slide down the hill. She managed to get in the van without a proper coat or her mittens, but I still let her go down the hill twice. ;) Josiah helped push her since she couldn't move herself without mittens on.

Josiah went down lots of times. Coming back up was a challenge...he had to slip and slide until he reached footprints to get up the hill.

Just the fact that we had a "day three"--and now, day four--is odd. As my brother says, this is imported snow because our snow never sticks around this long. ;) The temperature hasn't warmed up enough for much of it to melt away, and won't until Saturday.

According to CNN, 49 out of 50 states have snow, and 69.4 percent of the lower 48 is covered with some snow accumulation. Do you have snow in your area?

You Capture: Outside

Last week, I went to a friend's house with another friend. It was a gorgeous day



and while the kids ran around and played outside,


we baked cookies!

Snickerdoodles

Lots of cookies!

Yummy holly berry treats

New kinds of cookies...

These were sugar cookies that were "thumbprinted," filled with raspberry jam, baked and then drizzled with melted white chocolate. Yum! I just wish I'd taken a picture of the finished product...

And more familiar cookies...

Chocolate chip cookies are hiding underneath the cut-out cookies.

Oh, yeah...outside...

After church on Sunday, we were surprised to look outside to see snow falling. We rarely get snow in this area, (In fact, when Josiah was three he asked, "Is snow real?" because he couldn't remember it ever snowing.)

It was too cold for Grace to want to stick around outside after getting her picture made! I appreciated her effort to smile, even if she does look pained.

And when we do get snow...well, it's not in December! Not even a little bit of flurries...

The snow looked pretty but there wasn't much of it, and it didn't stick around for long.


The cold, however, stuck around longer than I'd have liked, especially with the windchill in the teens. My friend from Pennsylvania was delighted!

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Wordless Wednesday: Snow Day

More photos from our recent snow day...










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Winter Wonderland

Friday night it snowed steadily until after 8:00...


and it was absolutely gorgeous the next morning!







By noon on Saturday, the snow was rapidly melting, which was fine with me by that point. I get tired of all the wet shoes, wet clothes, wet gloves, wet floors, etc., faster than the kids get tired of bundling up to play in the snow. ;)

Besides, Robert throws snowballs much like Flint Lockwood does in Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, which isn't much fun for Josiah...