Yesterday the snow storm was in full swing by the time we left for the Archives and then it turned to icy rain and then to rain as the temperatures warmed up. They do a really good job on the main roads here in scraping off the snow and ice. I am very pleased that we live on a main road to and from Augusta.
This morning the sun has come up and I took pictures of this spectacular world in which we live. The ice has stuck to the trees and with the sun shining on them; they look like they are made of spun silver. I took lots of pictures and I see that a neighbor from the condo’s next door is outside taking pictures as well. Guess you can tell who is from Maine and who is not. When we lived in Pennsylvania I saw this same thing on the road from Johnstown to Ebensburg. We had gone through a pretty horrific storm that had coated everything with ice and the bare trees looked like a bevy of silversmiths had gone berserk with their trade and made all the trees like spun silver. It was truly beautiful. We do not have ice storms like this in Arizona and so I am thrilled to have this gift given to me this morning. I am watching the ice fall off the trees. I know that these are ice balls that are falling off the trees because I stood under one of them to see if it was water that was falling, but it is ice balls and they hit the ground with great purpose. There is nothing soft about falling ice. Last ice storm yielded a serious accident on the highway when a plow was working on a bridge over the highway and a chunk of ice fell off the bridge and smashed through the windshield of a passing car.
I did not write yesterday because I felt too bad when we got home. One of the office chairs I was sitting on went out from under me when I bent over to put my shoes on and I fell and hit my head on the table. It could have been way worse than it is. I only got a goose egg on the back of my head behind my left ear. A few inches either way and it could have been serious, more so if I had connected with the sharp corner of the table. I went to the Reflexologist this morning and she has put me back together. I do not really know how her skills work, but they work and it is a similar effect as Cyna achieves – she is my massage therapist in Prescott.
As I was walking home this morning I decided to walk across what was our lawn before the snow fell. Well the Ice storm left a deposit of ice that is so thick in parts, that I did not dent or even go through the ice and snow. It has remained cold so that also contributes to the thickness of the ice.
On Saturday afternoon we went to see the movie HUGO. It was an excellent show and I thought I saw Johnny Depp in it. I said as much and Bill laughed and said I was seeing things, but the lady in the next seat said, “Oh I thought I was seeing things when I saw Johnny Depp but I was not.” Then the credits came up at the end and sure enough, Johnny Depp was one of the producers or something and I felt that I was not losing my mind. Thank you lady in the next seat.
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