Oh the Weather Outside is Frightful

We have been getting so much snow around here that it is starting to get ridiculous. We haven't seen the ground in over a month because it is covered in at least a foot of snow everywhere we look.

And yesterday morning we woke up to even more.  This is the bus stop outside of work.

This is me next to a pile of snow almost as tall as I am.  Please enjoy the face that I'm making in this picture.

The trees though....oh the trees look so beautiful when they are covered in fresh fallen snow.  Every single tree looks like its own individual work of art.  I couldn't get over it.  Finally I whipped out the camera that I had on hand.

Pine Trees in the Morning

Pine Trees When the Sun Came Out in the Afternoon

Institute Tree in the Morning

Institute Tree After the Sun Came Out in the Afternoon

It's been awhile since I've showed you a picture of the outside of the house.  The flat head shovel was for the ice from the ice storm and the red shovel was for...you know...all that snow.

For the sake of comparison, this is the house in the summer time...I guess that this picture is also for the sake of my sanity.  I have to remember that this is what the house looks like in happier days.

When I got home...this was in the way of me getting to the door.

Yup...everything was looking pretty icy. And this one icicle had decided to grow long enough to get in the way of heads going to the door.  Rude.

This is me with my intense icicle.  Luckily I'm short enough that I didn't have to worry about stabbing my eye out.

Length wasn't the only "cool" thing about this icicle!  Look at the weird shape that it is in!!  I don't know what would cause that...except a lot of precise environmental circumstances.  But I thought it was the most awesome icicle. 

  
All Tuesday I was marveling at the beauty of the fresh fallen snow.  Then I was marveling at how blue the sky is after a snow storm.

This morning when I woke up and saw that it was snowing....I was in a foul mood.

My bus was 22 minutes late getting to me...so I stood in the snow storm for 30 minutes waiting for it.  Then I had to take a different second bus because the buses weren't going to campus because of the big hill....because it was physically impossible to get the buses UP the hill.  Fair enough.

This was the group of people that I got off of the bus with...to make our way to campus.  Can you see it in the distance?

This is a picture of me by a really beautiful tree while the storm was clearing up.

When I got home that day, more intense icicles!

In conclusion....it is cold here.  And I'm excited for Spring.  I'm guessing that it is going to be a longer winter though so I need to try and endure to the end.