Sunflowers

Friday, February 5, 2010

February Snow

We are getting the kind of snowfall that everyone wishes for on special days ... like Christmas.   These snowflakes are massive and gorgeous!   Seriously, they are bigger around than a quarter.  Everything has already been coated in white and it's supposed to just keep coming down for several more hours. 


If you enlarge the picture above you can see the huge snowflakes coming down out of the sky.  Those are not droplets on my camera lens.


Both of my college kids were planning to come home this weekend.   I hope they are careful on the roads.
I have just come in from shoveling snow.  It is heavy, wet snow and it's about 8 inches deep on the drive.  What a great work out!  But I probably won't be able to move tomorrow!  LOL!!

33 comments:

  1. Very pretty. Makes me miss my Appalachian Mountains. It's been cold here on the coast of NC, but we do not get snow.

    Stay warm and safe.

    Sissie

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  2. Beautiful photos! I hope everyone makes it home OK and you enjoy your weekend! ♥

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  3. What beautiful pictures of the snow! We are getting our snow today too. It started here around 9:00 this morning and isn't supposed to stop until tomorrow evening. Our area is supposed to get 1-2 feet...have some ice mixed in with it. Hope your college kids make it home safely.

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  4. Hope the kids get home safe in spite of the gorgeous scenery. Great photos!...and your pillow hearts on your last post are wonderful...you say they are vintage but did you make any also? They are so lovely.
    God Bless

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  5. Looks just like here. It snowed most of the day. We have another storm coming the end of the weekend.
    Enjoy and stay warm.

    Melinda

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  6. We have tons already, but your pics are still gorgeous! Stay safe and don't over do it ! Cindy

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  7. Do you live close to me? Have I asked you this before. I live in Sterling Kansas. I would love to meet you if you are close. Let me know if it is okay. My email is on my blog if you ever want to write and met.

    Thank you for coming over to my blog. I so enjoy you!

    Blessings, Linda

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  8. Wow...everyone is getting snow..and we have spring like weather..if any place needs it... it is us...the Winter Olympics start next week and our snow is melting. Your images are so lovely. Have a great cozy weekend.

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  9. Beautiful pictures, but I am o so glad the snow is gone here, although they predict more cold weather for the coming week. For Dutch standards we have had loads of snow already ;)

    Have a nice weekend!
    Carolien

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  10. Your pictures are very, very pretty. I do love snow, it's the shoveling I'm not so fond of... Hope everybody makes it there safe and sound.

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  11. What lovely photographs, thank you for sharing, and thank you too for your wonderful advice on my procrastination, you are right, and I do think if all of us in the family go to bed with a pretty smile on our faces at the end of the day then all is well and I shall be very happy :0)

    X

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  12. Wow, very pretty pictures. I remember the blizzard in 93 when I was in college and a bunch of us drove home. We were stupid!

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  13. That is so beautiful! We have not had one snowflake this year -- not one! Some day I'm going to move to a cabin in the woods and sit in front of the fire all winter knitting, as I watch the snow fall outside my window ;-).
    Blessings,
    G
    And thank you for the prayers!

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  14. I love to see large snowflakes fall! Enjoy and stay warm! blessings,Kathleen

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  15. Good morning...just checking in to see if your college kids made it home safely.

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  16. Your pics are beautiful..but I have had enough...makes life so difficult for disabled folks!

    I love my silpat..( saw you ask over at In the Middle of Nowhere blog))
    It is a wonderful invention! Do treat yourself to one if you bake. Well worth the investment!

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  17. Beautiful snowy pictures...hope you have a lovely Saturday xx

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  18. are you sure you didn't take that at my house????? the snow flakes were HUGE here too...

    it all looked like a movie set!

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  19. Exactly the kind of snow we have. I left the shoveling to the guys!

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  20. It is beautiful! Hope your kids made it home okay. laurie

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  21. I really do love the snow IN A PHOTO! my lovely hubby is like a kid when it snows here which thankfully is not too often!!
    I love you photo's and by the way the hearts below too. I have just taken a welcome break from making pottery hearts, painting them red,putting a guest names in silver writing on them, then threading them on ribbon ready to tie around the table serviettes for my daughters wedding!
    Oh what mother love is! x
    Blossom

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  22. Gorgeous pictures! I suppose we'll have some more of the white stuff later today through tomorrow in our neck of the woods. Still 4 inches or so on the ground from Friday's 'dump' :) Hope your kids made it home okay. -Tammy

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  23. That is absolutely gorgeous. It does look like Christmas. Hope you can stay inside and cozy and just admire it from fireside.

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  24. Thanks for leaving a nice comment on my blog.
    To answer your question about the hammered pieces. If you see something you like I can send you a close up detailed pic and if you want to buy it, then I can make arrangements with the seller.

    Just let me know.

    Thanks
    Sissie

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  25. Don't you just love it when the snow covers the tree branches like that. It sure looks like a winter wonderland. How big and beautiful those snowflakes were. I was so excited to hear that we were going to get 12 inches of snow. When I woke Saturday morning to 23 inches I was sure surprised!! It was great until we had to shovel. Just where do you put 23 inches of snow??? The weatherman is calling for 2-4 more inches this coming Tuesday---YIKES
    Stay warm and safe--hope your family made it home safe :)
    Fondly
    Mimi~

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  26. It's so beautiful but it can be hard to shovel if it is heavy like that. Speaking of workouts...
    want me to come shovel your snow. I have gained five pounds since I began blogging a year ago! :) NOT good.
    Your photo's were gorgeous! I have seen other people show their falling snow and it is perfectly round. Yours look like wonderful.

    You can see how it is sticking together on the branches. I imagine some will break with the weight of that kind of snow.

    Take care and stay warm..
    Mona

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  27. Ah spring snow, wet & heavy!
    I wanted to respond to your LA question-almost all of my quilting is freehand, I don't have a computer on my LA & really don't want one! Don't have the extra $25,000 anyway!
    Occasionally I will use a pantograph,[ I find them boring!] a pattern on a roll of paper laid on the table under my machine that I can follow with a laser attached to my machine, but everything I quilt is hand guided. My =e= is on my profile if you would like to email me I'm happy to chat about quilting!

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  28. Our snow was small, light and fluffy. Maybe our temps were colder??
    Are you scheduled for another hit this week too? Ours is not supposed to melt due to cold temps, so we will have 1 ft of snow on top of a predicted 1 ft of snow if their predictions come true...but then again, it could all be nothing. Who knows!

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  29. Wow I miss the snow so much. I live in CA and haven't seen snow in like three years. I love those photos.

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  30. Beautiful! I wish that we got snow like that where I live. I'm sure it can get tiresome by the end of a long winter though.....

    Hope you're staying all warm and cozy!

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  31. These pictures are so pretty, they could be postcards. Altho everyone is tired of all the snow, it's a good thing for sure. Just think of all the water you will have after the melt. Your spring blooms will be gorgeous, Char

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  32. Wow what a photo! Wish I could see that in person!

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  33. Girl! You can so make the slipcover...wow I was still editing that post when I saw your comment-- haha!--thax for stoppin' by!

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