Winter Has Arrived!
It's February in Indiana and after the mostly mild January we've had, it was time for the snow to come*... and it did. There had been predictions that we would wake up yesterday with eight inches of snow already on the ground, but it was almost noon before we actually started seeing anything. It fell in big wet flakes that stuck to everything and by the time night came, Indianapolis was a winter wonderland.
These pictures were taken when I was on my way out the door to visit friends for dinner and cards - what better way to spend a cold snowy night, right? We enjoyed a delicious dinner courtesy of Bruce and then we played euchre and spades until the wee hours of the morning. Here's the group of the evening, Mark, Dwayne** and Bruce:
*I figure, if it's gonna be cold we might as well have some snow to show for it. It's usually about this time of year that I'm sick of the snow and ready for it to be gone, but we've had so little of it that it's actually a nice change of pace - especially when it's snow like this!
Here are a couple of pictures I took that show the snow on the trees in the courtyard of my apartment building:
**Dwayne was my partner for the evening and despite a slow start with the first game of euchre, we managed to win the rest of the games of the night. This picture was actually taken as they were trying to persuade me to play one more hand of spades, but it was already way past my bedtime and I needed to get home! Besides, isn't there some sort of wisdom about "know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away..."?!?
The evening topped off a really great day and the drive home on the snowy streets was perfect. I slept well and woke up to this view out my kitchen window:
Though I had work to catch up on today because of my play day yesterday, it worked out well as this is the kind of weather I enjoy watching from my window as I stay in my jammies all day!
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