Snow @ MindSay 
(If you want read "Nature's Diary:Stray Birds",please click here to Lori's Blog!)
The thermometer had dropped to 18 degrees below zero, but still chose to sleep in the porch as usual. In the evening, the most familiar sight to me would be stars in the sky. Though they were a mere sprinkle of twinkling dots, yet I had become so accustomed to them that their occasional absence would bring me loneliness and ennui.
It had been snowing all night, not a single star in sight. My roommate and I, each wrapped in a quilt, were seated far apart in a different corner of the porch, facing each other and chatting away.
She exclaimed pointing to something afar, “Look, Venus in rising!” I looked up and saw nothing but a lamp round the bend in a mountain path. I beamed and said pointing to a tiny lamplight on the opposite mountain, “It’s Jupiter over there!”
More and more lights came into sight as we kept pointing here and there. Lights from hurricane lamps flickering about in the pine forest created the scene of a star-studded sky. With the distinction between sky and forest obscured by snowflakes, the numerous lamp-lights now easily passed for as many stars.
Completely lost in a make-believe world, I seemed to see all the lamplights drifting from the ground. With the illusory stars hanging still overhead, I was spared the effort of tracing their positions when I woke up from my dreams in the dead of night.
Thus I found consolation even on a lonely snowy night !
As most know Dave and I live in a town called Bear Valley for 11 almost 12 years. Bear Valley is located at 7100' in the Sierras and is just over the hill as the crow flies from Lake Tahoe.
The majority of our granddaughters (lauralew) growing up, she is 20 now, we lived there. She and her parents lived down the hill from us about a hour or so. So we saw them a lot .... and I loved for her to come visit us.
Every Christmas / Birthday (they are right on top of one another) I would get excited about buying her new Sorel's (snow boots) or snow suits or anything related to winter recreation. She was going to be my little snowmobile mama ..... my dreams were to make her one hot rider ..... one with no fear. Why? It sounded good at the time and we LIVED on snowmobiles a good 7 months or more out of the year. Now I realize I was nuts .... lol !
Anyway these photos are from the Bear Valley years ...... as most of the photos are ...... and woke up this morning with a realization that I have not been using the close up setting on the camera to take pictures ..... these are not great but a bit less blurry and grainy than the others ..... DUH! Sometimes its the obvious that alludes me.
Still not the best photo of photos but .... someday maybe I'll get it together .... getting closer anyway .... lol!
Have a very happy hump day all .....
Peace. J.
I'm going to be hosting Olympia's weekly devotional at the De Colores book store down town tomorrow morning. That should be fun!
I just love fern fronds.
Cool as a cucumber has a different meaning as this picture shows.
I love that the sky behind the garage has so many hues.
This reminds me of clouds!
I unfortunately do not have much time to type right now so this is all I can do at the moment. I hope your weekend was enjoyable.
I have finally posted the pics from our trip to the Twin Cities. Overall, I wasn't overly thrilled with the Mall of America. The must do of the visit there was the old time photography where we did the whole 1920s thing. If you would like to see all of the photos that were taken, you can click on our direct link and if you're really stalkerish you could even purchase them! Also had to do the tourist thing of taking pictures of Lego Land. Didn't venture in due to the amount of children which were in there, but it was really neat to look at.
Went to IKEA after our little adventure of trying to get out of the Mall. The whole reason we were going was so I could get the matching Lillberg couch for the Lillberg loveseat I have. Checked the in store inventory on their website before we went and it said that they had two in stock, so I figured it would be no biggy to get one. Get there and they didn't have any. No display with the rest of the furniture, no display in the self service area. I was pissed. One good thing about not getting the couch is that in their As-Is section, they had the Malm chest of drawers I was looking at. It had a tiny chunk missing out of the top of it and the two top drawers weren't level, but you had to look for them to even see them. The best thing about it is that it was only $79.00 rather than the $149.00 that the one on the floor was going for. Also got a new desk, cart for desk, and side table.
We are hoping to head back to the Cities again in May or so, but a lot of the depends on gas prices. Right now we are sitting at $3.39 a gallon. On our next trip, we plan on going to the Hard Rock. We were going to do it this time around, but when we woke up at the hotel, we were under a Winter Storm Warning and ended up getting around six inches of snow.
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