Snowed In!

Here in Chicagoland we get huge snow storms about every 20 years and just plain snow every winter. 1967, 1979, 1999 have been the bad ones and we can now add 2011 to that list. Cause we are now in the grips of a huge snow storm. 2 inches (5cm) an hour has fallen since yesterday and it's STILL snowing!

As Mid-westerners we are hearty souls used to cold and snow just not quite this much snow!

View from my studio window.

Out the front door.

Out the front door to the un-plowed street. And yes

the snow is half way up my neighbors garage.

Window in the sunroom. Snow is that high.

Back yard.

 Back yard.

The funny thing is we would have more snow if the wind hadn't been so crazy last night blowing it everywhere. It's died down now so I think we'll really get some snow today. LOL!

SNOW!

The Girl (otherwise know as my daughter aka Snarky Girl) woke me at 7 am this morning to see the snow all excited. (Did I mention that she's 18?) So Lita (the dog) and I got up to see and wow! Lots of snow and it's still coming down now. It's close to 4 inches (10 cm).

Backyard.

Out the front door.

This will make going to the P.O. later not much fun! But the dog might really love running in it.

Yesterday Lita Had A Snow Day

Lita is a small dog and snow kind of scares her. Here she is

 not stepping in it. She wears a leash in the yard cause
even though it's fenced all around, there is a hole in the
back neighbors side and there are hawks around.

She's nosy as heck so that won over the fear of snow as she 

decided to check out the doings in the neighbors yard.

I packed down a big path all around the pool for her to run in,
which she loved. Here she is after a big face plant into
the snow. I laughed so hard!

Amazingly I was able to capture the snow falling
which you can see if you look carefully.

Much more snow has fallen now so it's over her head in most
places in the yard so we will probably stay in today.

Very Snowy Thursday

From the porch.

At the top of the driveway.

The front of the house.

Our lovely pine at the front side of the house.