#blizzard 2012

[sherrysplace]

Lots of Snow the Day After Christmas

Christmas day in the afternoon a Blizzard Warning was issued by the National Weather Service for Central Indiana. Sure enough, we woke up the next day to close to six inches of snow on the ground early in the morning. By noon there was over a foot of snow with blowing winds causing drifts across driveways and streets.

              Two of our four grandchildren were still visiting us and they sure enjoyed being snowed in!

[cklondon]

It's been over 24 hours now. I have been stuck in this house for too long. I'm so stir crazy, I just don't know what to do anymore. Sounds like it's time to start reading some Hemingway and eat chocolate and contemplate life.

[fromwhereyoudream-blog]

The blizzard that's raging outside made me think of Charles Burchfield, who developed a series of symbols to convey sound in his paintings. In his Orion in December, the dots on the ice-coated shrubs represent the crackling sound they make in the winter breeze.  Burchfield once said, "An artist must paint not what he sees in nature, but what is there. To do so he must invent symbols, which, if properly used, make his work seem even more real than what is in front of him." How true.

[shepherdmoon]

People in Indiana react to snow like they've never seen snow before

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[cklondon]

So the city-sent guy with a snow plow truck is taking bribes to plow people's driveways. We were going to pay him until we saw some college kids shoveling the neighbor's driveway. When we were talking to them we mentioned the truck and they all got really quiet for a tense moment before one of them said, "We don't like the snow-plow guy." We Hoosiers take these matters really seriously.

[freedomandfiction]

Blizzard 2012!

Stay safe and warm, followers and readers in the snowy regions!

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