Thursday, February 26, 2009

Winter Comes for an Unwanted Visit

Last week we enjoyed some terrific weather and started to get outdoors after a tedious winter. Today we woke to an unwanted return of snow and cold. With any luck this will move off to Rexburg where it is wanted.

At least the dafodils have poked their sleepy heads out of the ground to see what the fuss is. You can see that they haven't awaken all the way and are still stretching to find the sun. It's there, be patient a little longer.

In a few weeks these branches will be budding with brilliant green leaves, rain will be misting down, making this winter scene much more colorful, rich and promising. Even though it rains here, the colors are beautiful. Don't any of you Utahans tell me you couldn't tolerate the rain. Look out your window, see the brown grass, the gray trees, the dust kicked up from the sanded streets? Yeah, it's bleak there too, but our air is clean.

2 comments:

Whitney Gillis said...

How dare you say that the snow should move here where it is wanted. Just for that I'm sending you all the Chastity talks we get here that are unwanted....never mind i got enough of those in Seattle too.

Jill Walker said...

Sorry, I've lived up there and I can truly say that I would take Utah's seasons over living in all that rain any day!!