Snow Pics

We got our first "real" snow yesterday. Northerners may scoff, but this is "real snow" for us. The public schools shut down, though here in the heat-island of the city 2 hours late would have been fine.

I hear Mr. Obama was disappointed that Washington D.C. schools shut down due to the same storm system. He has never driven in a Southern city on ice- people in S.U.V.s on cell phones still driving fast and skidding off the road, enough of the huge rear end of their vehicle out of the ditch to block the lane, others like me pottering along properly, only to be cursed by someone with Four Wheel Drive who thinks that it will do any good on ice. It doesn't. We don't get Northern Snow here. We get wet, slushy stuff over a thin (or sometimes thick) layer of ice. Skating for cars. No gas, no brake, just pat, pat, pat and potter along, praying fiercely not to get creamed by an Escalade. Yesterday the sun came out early, though, and most concrete or asphalt surfaces melted nicely. That is another great thing about living here- the snow doesn't stay for months. You go out early in the AM to take pictures, because in a few precious hours you'll be back in the gray and brown world of a Tennessee winter. Winter beauty is ephemeral here.