SNOW

 I guess I got 4 to 6 inches but it's stopped and already starting to melt. Icy mornings for a few days, unfortunately. 

But we needed the precipitation and it was relatively painless, in that it wasn't all that cold. No ice storm, but just fluffy, wet, snow. And it should be sunny tomorrow with a high in the forties. The sooner it all melts the better. 

Maybe Some Snow

 Starting sometime over night and extending into tomorrow afternoon, snowfall turning into what will probably be a light drizzle. This is another forecast I'd like to see WRONG. But I'll be ready for it, whatever it turns out to be. And I felt like doing something different today, reaching back into the archives and re-working old scenes. I really like the black and white stuff and the subject matter I used then. I don't think I'd feel good at all, doing that again, visiting such places again, because it would necessarily and unfortunately be something I would have to do alone, and that would be hard to take. No alternative. 

My life now is sometimes as bleak as these scenes. I think I'll do more of this and save the sunflowers for later. Yes, more...

I call stuff like this a "life study". It IS life, isn't it?

Today Not Bad

 Tomorrow won't be so bad but snow possible tomorrow night, probably late, and then snow changing to rain Tuesday. I guess this will at least help with the drought conditions but 1 to 3 inches of snow is not that much moisture. The hazard will be Wednesday morning with iced roadways. But it'll be well above freezing later that day and it warms again rapidly after this blip of winter. So I'll run the necessary errands tomorrow, stay inside all day Tuesday (I'll have to get out once in a while, but I'm not DRIVING anywhere), and Wednesday afternoon I can be out and about as needed. It's been worse. A LOT worse. Most of our snow, if we get any, arrives in February. I actually used to like cold weather. And I even enjoyed snow at one time. But now I'm old and all that has changed. At my age you'd rather be warm than cold. 

I'm looking forward to summer and I really don't care how hot it gets. 

Next Week More Winter

 Just for a few days it'll be significantly colder and there's a snow chance. The National Weather Service has conditions less severe than the local news. No surprise there. SOP is for local news channels to sensationalize the weather reports. Hoping for more viewers, I suppose. Profit driven pseudo-journalism is nothing new. Profit driven medicine operating along corporate lines is relatively new and a complete and thorough abomination. Corporate law should be dismantled in such a way as to make corporate "personhood" vanish. Pure evil in corporate "personhood". Every corporate "person" is a soulless and amoral monster. A destroyer and devourer of people (REAL people) and the environment. I guess we're stuck with it. It's the evil in our daily lives, but clumsy, stupid, short-sighted, and incompetent. That mitigates the damage to some extent. 

Today, at least, the weather is fine. Cool, yes, but sunny and it will be well above freezing. The wind does not seem so bad today either. Truly, I hate winter.