Good morning GH.  It truly is morning, and the sun is shining on our fair city once again. Currently, the temperature showing on the desktop display is 25 degrees, which concurs with the display taken from the sophisticated equipment I use in the Weather Window weather station.

I promised a faithful reader some additional pictures of our current outdoor views and I shall deliver.  When I let Sugar the Weather Dog out this morning, she had to contend with at least an additional six inches of snow on the deck.  It is currently difficult to get the door open, because the snow is over the top of the threshold. So, that truly means more snow moving today.  I was very fortunate that my western neighbor came by last night and gave me a head start on the snow at the end of our shared driveway in addition to our front sidewalk.  I'll have to thank him and buy him a six-pack of his favorite brew.  But, it was like shoveling sand against the incoming tide, there simply was too much snow overnight to have a long lasting effect.

Mary wants to go to the mall today, that's so unlike her, so in order to for that to happen, I have to clear the driveway, again.  I don't know what to do with the snow anymore, because I am running out of places to pile it.  Kind of like sand in the desert dunes.

Soon, it will be...Tea time, and I will then be fortified to carry Sugar through the snow drifts, right after I clear a path down the shared driveway.  Sugar of course, likes the snow, she always has, but this may be more than even she can handle.  Yesterday, when she and I went for our morning walk, she spied the local letter carrier at the corner.  She and he have an interesting relationship.  She is warming up to him. She wanted to see him and bolted down the street, through the snow, to meet/greet him, but then couldn't make up her mind whether to actually approach him up close.  As he said, "It will come, we just have to be patient."  I doubt if Sugar will ever feel that way about the Big Brown truck and its driver. Oh, byt the way, a train came by last night while it was snowing.  Amazing, and long.

So, without further ado, I'll place the pictures in no particular order and say Ciao for now.

Just a hint of our newly fallen totals.

One of my favorites. looking west over my neighbor's roof at Public Safety.

Similar, yet different.

A new view, out my eastern looking office window.

Similar, but you can see my neighbor's roof to the east.

The obligatory shot of my front porch.

One of my favorites, looking north out the office window.

If you look close, you'll see my frigid friends in the yard of my neighbor to the south.

Sugar's path to the backyard, and if you look under the snow covered tree, Sugar the Weather Dog, doing what all intrepid reporters do, standing in the snow.

Not as close up.

Proof, that I have snow to move.

As you can see, I have to move the snow to open the door.

Ouch!

Well, why not?

I have to admit, that the trees look great all covered in snow.