snow

View from our patio

Snow! It snowed here in the DC area on Tuesday. Lots of snow. I think our particular area outside of DC got somewhere around 3-4 inches.

Does anyone else love snow as much as I do?

The way I see it, if we're going to have super cold weather and walk around all bundled up and risk getting windburn on our faces (wind is serious here), then we might as well have something pretty to look at.  If you don't get snow, then all you have is cold weather and dead trees.  With snow, plants get a white winter suit and not everything appears dead and brown.

It's still freezing here.  Yesterday, the high was 15 degrees.  Yes, 15.  It's a little unusual for this area.  The news has been calling the weather patterns things like "Polar Vortex" and "trifecta of winter weather anomalies," whatever that means.  I heard some older people grumbling about the days when weather like this "was just called a cold snap," spoken with a distinct amount of contempt for the news weatherpeople.

Stay warm!