A Beautiful Day

We woke up to a beautiful day yesterday morning. The skies were clear and blue and everything was coated with a light layer of fluffy sticky snow. It almost looked like the snow actually grew out of the trees. You could see each individual snowflake, it was lovely. Days like this make the longer winters bearable. When nature is this beautiful I don’t need to say anything, the photos say it all.





Sunny days like this make me happy, we don’t have many sunny winter days here in NE Ohio. I hope you have a beautiful day!

What kind of weather makes you happy?

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Snowed In

I’m sure many of you got the same winter storm we got hit with on Friday/Saturday. It started snowing around noon on Friday and didn’t stop until about noon on Saturday. We don’t generally get this much snow at once here in these parts of Ohio. It was a heavy wet sticky snow, so everything was covered in snow. The side of our garage was plastered, as was the house and all the trees.


Since we had a meeting in Cleveland yesterday evening, we had to dig ourselves out. So we bundled up and headed out to shovel the driveway.

This is what we saw, we had to start shoveling from inside (and we have a step up into our house).

We still like to shovel our driveway, instead of a snow blower. It’s like raking leaves, a great reason to get out on a beautiful day and a great workout (keeps those gardening muscles in shape)! We only have one snow shovel, so I had to use my gardening shovel. We ended up with 14-18 inches of snow, we measured here between our house and garage which is a bit sheltered. My mom who lives an hour northwest of us, got around 8 inches. In Pittsburgh, about an hour and half east of us, they had almost two feet of snow.

We’re loving this snow! The sun came out yesterday afternoon and it was just beautiful. I was hoping to head out and take some photos, but after two and a half hours shoveling I was a bit tired.

Did you get hit with the winter storm?

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Quote of Day: Little House in the Big Woods

Now the winter seemed long. Laura and Mary began to be tired of staying always in the house.

Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House in the Big Woods)

Winter is starting to seem long to me. We had a nice sunny warm day last week and it seemed like spring was on it’s way. We went for a nice long walk to enjoy the weather. This week we got a bunch more snow and the temps are back down into the single digits. I know we still have many more long weeks of winter, but I start getting antsy for spring once we have one nice day. Since I haven’t ordered any of my seeds yet, I should be thankful we still have so much winter left. I’ll be doing that next week after I get my taxes finished.

Do you tire of being in the house during the cold winter months?

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Winter Storms = Migraine

We had a big storm move through, it started Thursday afternoon and it’s still here today. It dumped 8 inches of snow or more and closed almost every school yesterday.

Unfortunately big weather changes occasionally give me a migraine – ugh. I seem to be a rather sensitive person when it comes to the weather. So I spent the day squinting at all the bright light, thanks to so much snow and some sun. Everything looks like an overexposed picture when you have a migraine.

You find yourself squinting at every light, even the Christmas lights on the porch.

I did enjoy a few cups of ginger tea (made with freshly diced ginger with some honey) and some chamomile tea (helps with the upset stomach that’s inevitable with a migraine). Thankfully it was getting better by evening. I’m looking forward to today so I can enjoy all this lovely snow. Hopefully we get some nice light and I can get out and get a few good photos.

Does the weather ever affect your health or mood?

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Quote of the Day: Cloak of Winter

“Every gardener knows that under the cloak of winter
lies a miracle.”

The view from my kitchen window, big trees (oak, maple & cherry), surrounded by various ground covers & weeds. It is lovely this time of year with a blanket of snow protecting the gardens (and hiding the weeds).

What do you see from your kitchen window?

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