Snow!! Makes it feel like Christmas.

First snowfall of the season... finally.

Good timing, too, as we've been doing all-things Christmas today: Shopping, Sunday School Christmas Pageant practice, mail a package at the Post Office and a 4-H Holiday Party which involved ice skating and pizza.

It's still snowing (and it's 12:45am).

Here are two pictures taken about 5:00pm today on a freeway off ramp. You can see the snow flakes as blurs around the streetlight. The two pics are a result of using two different camera settings, but I forgot which two they were. They might have been "blueberry" and "orange" settings.



Here is a third picture, a third camera setting ("blackberry"?) taken a couple blocks down the road.


Here is one from our back door. This one was taken at about 9:40pm.


I went to photograph the front of the house, but the family didn't want me to disturb the beauty of the snow. It's only slightly interesting that no one raises a fuss when the dog wants to pee in the undisturbed snow. Actually, I'm pretty sure someone even called it 'so cute'. So... here is a picture of the front from November 2006.

You may think that it's not a relevant photo because it's missing the Christmas lights. Actually, it looks about the same as the photo because we haven't put up the lights yet this year. It's my strategy to not put up lights this year and then maybe we'll WOW the neighbors next year.

Here's the competition: the three houses across the street:




We look forward to seeing Grandma & Grandpa Rolfs when they come up for our early Christmas on Sunday, in conjunction with the annual Sunday School kids Christmas Pageant at our church. Hopefully they'll drive safely, if they opt to brave the cold conditions.

Merry Christmas!

~E