Brrrr!

According to our thermometer, the temperature yesterday seemed to be stuck right around freezing. The wind was whipping the snow across the yard, though, so it felt colder than that.

Two little robins were out playing in the spring snowstorm, hopping around in the front yard, chasing each other, skittering across the top of the snow banks, and leaving little tracks on the sidewalk. I tried to sneak out the front door to capture their antics, but they were too shy. In fact, if you zoom in on this picture, you can see where this little guy made a quick U-turn on the sidewalk to get to a safe distance when he heard the door opening!

So we gawked at each other through the big front window instead!

It DID snow!

It was just as I thought...
I got up twice in the middle of the night to check for snow.
Just rain. Oh, phooey!
But then very, very early just as it was starting to get light, the snow began to fall, huge chunks of snowflakes all clinging together as if they were afraid to hit the ground.
It has kept up all day with a few clear times here and there.

Here's one of those clear times, taken from our front porch, on this very gray day.

Now the snow is falling steadily again, making everything all fuzzy and white.

A lot of snow is collecting on the bushes by our front porch. Pretty soon, we will take pity on those bushes and get the broom out to brush off all that weight!

Here we go again!

"Parts of the Denver metro could pick up 10 to 15 inches of snow, with as much as 2 feet or more in the foothills just west and south of Denver." --The Weather Channel, 04/16/2009

That's tonight!

This was the view from our front porch on April 10, 2008.
That is almost exactly a year ago... and here we go again!

I'm looking out my office window, and I can see the sparkling lights of the city down below us--crystal clear, and not a flake in sight. It's kind of hard to believe the forecast. But in the mountains, the snow is already thickly falling. I'm sure I will wake up in the night and look out the window hopefully.

How I love being snowed in!

Today I went to the store and stocked up on yogurt. The "yogurt shelf" in the fridge was almost empty, and Little Miss Muffin (Coral herself) thinks it is yogurt or nothing for breakfast. Being snowed in without enough of that would be too much to bear! (You'll have to take my word for it!)

a gray dawn
white sheets of snow blocking out the world
the thwipp-thwipp-thwipp of the coffee perking
warm jammies
my family
How blessed I am!

(And if we really do get this snow, I'll take a picture for you!)

Easter!

Jesus is alive!


But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death,
because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.
--Acts 2:24

Good Friday

The cross...



wicked

cruel

evil beyond my understanding

a blessing beyond my imagination

... that terrible wonderful cross.

And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood.
--Hebrews 13:12