In Remembrance of Snow

Here it is February 25th, 2012, and we have had very little snow here in east Tennessee.  Suzy Snowflake made only brief cameo appearances.  We are now only days away from March.  We are approaching spring when  "a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love".  I always think of that Tennyson verse every spring.  This is a farewell post to anymore thoughts of snow for this winter.

Can you see the owl face in this photo I made
from our porch light?

My daughter pointed the owl image out to me.

A scene from our Great Blizzard Trip of 2009.

We had just left this McDonald's somwhere
in South Dakota off an interstate.

The visibility was better in the photo than
in reality.

We were headed to Omaha.  A convenience store employee handed
me his card and asked me to call him when we made it home safely.
We had stopped there for gas.

I called him when we had made it safely home to Texas.

In my wildest dreams I would have never dreamed
I'd find myself in Deadwood, South Dakota.

We spent three wonderful nights here,
the hotel food was fantastic!  It was several degrees minus zero.

Clint's Thermapedic pillow that was in
the car trunk froze into a solid boulder.

It was quite funny to me!  No pillow fights, either!  :-)

Our goal, we made it to Mount Rushmore only to be greeted
by an irate park employee who yelled at us about parking.
What a greeting after such a treacherous drive up the mountain.


There was not another soul around and we are being yelled at about
our parking?  I yelled back and asked, "give me two seconds" and snapped this photo.


I could not even see a human, just heard her yelling.

If you want to build a snowman,
I'll help you make it, 1,2 3 ...


~Suzy Snowflake

Last year in Plano, TX, we had quite a bit of snow. I made this little snowman, he was about 11 inches without his forelorn top hat. I have to tell you, the 11 inch tall snowmen are much easier to make. I brought in snow from outside in a plastic container. I made snowballs for the body on the kitchen counter and then put them in the freezer.

If you want to build a snowman,
I can help you make it, 1 2 3 ...


~Suzy Snowflake

Pleased with their shape and size, I then decided on materials for the head and body. I got out some mulling spices and picked out two cloves for the eyebrows. For the eyes I chose some dried peppercorns from the mulling spices A bit of dried orange peel made a cute little nose and another dried piece gave him that crooked little smile.







"Tap, tap tapping at your windowpane
To tell you she's in town."


~Suzy Snowflake





I alway loved this little video and song when I was a child. Suzy Snowflake originally aired on Chicago TV in December 1953 on "Garfield Goose and Friends".

"I haven't long to stay."

~Suzy Snowflake