I always complain about the cold. I hate it! Winter is pretty, it’s just COLD and WET! Humpf!
Anyways, I love nature too, and animals are so adorable. If I see an animal dead on the side of the road, I cry . . . literally! I’ve almost had times that I thought about being vegetarian because I hate seeing them killed, but I like hamburgers and meat too much. Am I a horrible person?! I just won’t kill them myself unless I necessarily have to and even then I would cry!
Okay, enough of being off topic . . . But the weather is pretty, just too cold for me!
Lovely pics thanks for sharing them, you are so lucky to have wildlife, I live in Turkey, we don’t get anything like this, in the mountains we do get bears but who knows who is more scared us or the bear.
Todays temperature is 18c and sunny but lots of snow on the mountains
Ugh, ours is HORRIBLE! It’s freezing cold but no snow, then one day, it all blows up and gets to around 66f (something like 17c, I think) and then the next morning, we’re taking shelter from tornadoes! It’s raining like you wouldn’t believe, then, after twelve hours of ducking and covering, it takes about two hours to cool down to about 9f (umm… don’t remember but it was in the negatives for celcius) and all that freaking rain that came down turns to ice… yuck! Poor Cincinnati, AR, too… it got obliterated… That was New Years’ Eve day. There’s 38 or so images of the town here… http://www.4029tv.com/slideshow/news/26331583/detail.html We had debris from them and we are 50 miles away! Also, they hit north and south of us… not even five miles away… Now, Monday and Tuesday, they’re forecasting snow but they do that a lot of times when it doesn’t actually snow… we’ll see!
Where I grew up, in Alabama, it would ‘snow’ about once a year, usually just a bit of white dust that never ‘stuck’, and if it did, schools closed.
But this year, I got to go home for the holidays, got in Christmas Eve, and it snowed, REAL snow, all night and all the next day! We didn’t get above freezing for 3 days, so the roads were pretty hazardous until they got sand onto the freeways, but it was my very first White Christmas.
I live in northern California now, and it snows at higher elevations than I live at, where a few friends live.
I used to live in areas that snowed A LOT and I really mean that. About two years ago, one of those areas got a big blizzard (they have at least one blizzard every year but it’s usually a few hours of heavy snow, with the remainder of the night or day just being heavier than normal but not real bad) and it was actually so bad that they declared a national emergency state. Now, when I lived there, they NEVER closed the school due to snow… the school bus had four-wheel-drive and snow tires/chains and they always had the county shops or forest service drive their snow plow in front. However, recess in five feet deep snow was great! Of course, this is the eighties… lol Anyhow, that year, the blizzard had dumped enough snow overnight to cover two-story houses! I’d have to say the most amazing part of it all was that in the spring, Salem and Portland, OR didn’t drown in all that moisture because they pushed the entire bit into the reservoir. Yeah, the roads were impassible for a while, as well, and food/necessities were helicoptered in (the forest service AND county shops both have heli-pads… they’re about five miles apart and on either side of the town but out of town).