A Few Words

Posted on April 2, 2008 by Momzoo

A light exists in spring
Not present on the year

At any other period.

When March is scarcely here

A color stands abroad

On solitary hills

That silence cannot overtake,

But human nature feels.

It waits upon the lawn;

It shows the furthest tree

Upon the furthest slope we know;

It almost speaks to me.

Then, as horizons step,

Or noons report away,

Without the formula of sound,

It passes, and we stay

Emily Dickinson

A little Something

Posted on March 27, 2008 by Momzoo

I read something beautiful last night and I just had to share. It comes from the book “O Pioneers!” by Willa Cather

“Winter has settled down over the Divide again; the season in which Nature recuperates, in which she sinks to sleep between the fruitfulness of autumn and the passion of spring.”

I don’t know why, but something those few lines moved me.

Beauty

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Momzoo

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter Sunday

I really love Easter

I love everything it stands for!

I wanted to share some beautiful flowers with you all

My wonderful Hubby sent these to me. I have them sitting on my kitchen table so I can look at them all day. They are just so beautiful.

Awwww, stinkin’ nuts!!!

Posted on February 13, 2008 by Momzoo

So yesterday I was all full of excitment and hope. The snow was melting, the air was warm, the sun was shining. I was planing my spring garden and hunting for little green shoots.

Alas….

Mother Nature
she is a tricky little bugger

this is my back yard at about 4:00 pm

(about the same time the buses in our area got grounded, I felt so bad for those poor kids stranded in their buses for hours and hours)

This is also about the same time they closed the road that leads into Eagle Mtn. There was a huge accident, and cars started to pile up on the few roads that lead into my city, Saratoga Springs. There are about two main roads into Saratoga Springs, SR 73 and Redwood Road, they create an intersection call “the cross roads” you have to pass through that intersection to get to Eagle Mtn, that is pretty much the only way in or out of both cities.

This is what it looked like out my back door around 9:00, that is when my poor PIC stumbled, half frozen (the heater in his car is broken) three hours past the time he usually gets home.

The issue wasn’t so much the amount of snow, it was more the wind. The drifts on Redwood Road were about 4 feet deep.

About this time we hear on the radio that Redwood road into Saratoga Springs is closed.

So basically, there is no way in or out of Eagle Mtn or Saratoga Springs.

We are offically “snowed in”

I am so thankful for the little food storage we have!

(later I learned that Redwood Road wasn’t really closed, however, it would have been crazy to try to drive on that road durring this storm)

Even though…..

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Momzoo

it is cold and wintry outside and I am having visions of warm summer evenings sitting on the lawn with neighbors and kids playing. I can’t help but appreciate the beauty of a snow storm. We have pretty had snow storm one after another all winter. Tonight’s storm seems especially beautiful.

This is the view outside of my back door….we got about 4 inches out here in that many hours.

This is my front porch. See the little lawn chairs under the tree. My girls set them up Saturday and were all bundled up sitting on them like they do in the summer time. By the time the snow let up, they were almost buried!!!

Another out the back door at the height of the storm.

My favorite tree in the front yard. I love to take pictures of the snow at night with the flash on, I like how it lights up all the snowflakes.

Well round one of the storm is over and I am waiting for round two. I am thinking a snow day would be fun with the kids…..but then again…..maybe not……