Snow back home

Here in D.C., it's day 7 of of snowmageddon. It isn't big news, but there's a lot of snow back home in western Pennsylvania, too. Here are some photos from my sister.

I remember when driving around on roads like this was not a big deal.

Here's our Park Church carillon and the park pavilion.

More town and main street.

I grew up in this town and have moved around a lot. But I can't stay long in a town that doesn't have a River Road. Kelly Drive and Rock Creek Parkway are great, but it all starts here.
At least for me.

At the end of River Road is the marker
for the ruins of revolutionary era Ft. MacIntosh.

Thanks, Lisa!

D.C. Snowpocalypse

Snowmageddon. Snowoverit. We're calling the DC blizzard of 2010 all of these. The big news is that a week of cabin fever provoked me to revive this blog. We had our first snow day a week ago. That was a minisnow, hardly worth mentioning now. Then last Friday we got this - the first 20-ish inches.

A tree fell at our edge of Rock Creek Park.

The instantly traditional DC 30-somethings snow fight was on in Dupont Circle. On Sunday, neighborhood friends walked over for chili, cornbread and the Superbowl. Go Saints! My favorite commercial was Punxsutwaney Polamalu. Go Steelers!

Monday was a day with no new snow. We went out to check out the neighborhood.

Other people had fun with shovels.

Fortunately I didn't have to use my bus stop.

We had burgers and fries at Nanny O'Brien's. The big news there is that they are completely out of veggie burgers and running low on ketchup. Let's hope for a delivery soon! (Just pretend this terrible photo is a great special effect.)



Everything stayed closed on Tuesday. And now, the Wednesday whiteout and another 10-20 inches. A news report says so far DC fire fighters have responded to five fires, 20 collapsed roofs and delivered 6 babies.

It is beautiful.

Total eclipse of a year

Huh. I haven't posted anything in almost two months, but look. This blog is almost one year old! Maybe someday it will grow up to be a real smart blog with regular entries all about the same real smart topic. But for now it is still a meandering, no focus, whatever I feel like doing whenever I feel like doing it blog. Lately it seems to be a "lookey what I found on the internet" blog. So to continue down that road, look what I found on the internet.

Some people singing what Bonnie Tyler was thinking while making the stupid-weird video for Total Eclipse of the Heart.