Why does it have to keep proving it's winter?

It's snowing again, doggone it. I have proof!







Can you tell I just shoveled about a half hour before this?


Yuck

Sunset pics for your weekend enjoyment

I went back out to the river and it durned freezing cold again! This time I had insulated boots, though. Here are some of the shots. If you want to see them all then click here for the set.







You can see here that the water was frozen.

WAKY

I was over at Bucky's today, checking out her post this morning. It was funny enough to see Bob Seger from the 60's. But I was curious about the hosts. I was pretty sure that one was Mark Lindsay from Paul Revere and the Raiders.

While I was looking for Google images of Mark Lindsay I ended up on this site. WAKY was THE station to listen to rock music when I was a kid in Louisville. I'm sure the joke was that rock music was wacky. Maybe Sometimes Saintly Nick knows more history about the station than I do.

It just brought back fun memories of being a kid on a lazy, hot summer day, listening to late 60's rock music.

Update:
Here's another link for WAKY thanks to Sometimes Saintly Nick!

Things are looking up. Well, at least my camera and I are

After giving you ground shots of the mushrooms, here are some shots in the other direction.

We've been lucky with some sunny days and interesting cloud patterns. I won't post them all here. If you'd like to look at the rest just click on any one and you'll go to my Flickr site.









This starts a different day from the previous.

Doin' 'Shrooms

This has been really warm winter weather. Instead of snow we've had plenty of rain. So, instead of snow in my backyard I have mushrooms.







I love the convolutions of this one.


And this one looks like an alien life form from Star Trek.

Tell me again why I should call 911???

We're all familiar with the life-saving phone number, 911. I always imagine very well-trained professionals answering the line, ready to calm you and connect you with the right people to help solve your problem.

I should start by saying that I drive into work starting at around 6:15. Being so far west in the eastern time zone guarantees that it will be dark over half of the year when I drive in.

A couple of weeks ago I was in the left lane in some bumper to bumper traffic. The car in front of me swerved slightly to the right. I couldn't see why and there was a car to the right of me so I didn't swerve. I'm pretty sure it was the legs of a dead deer that I ran over. The tires seemed okay, but I was worried that it would cause an accident. That's when I got the bright idea to call 911. Here's my (loose) version of the transcript of my call.

Operator: Hello?

Me: Is this 911?

Operator: Yes

Me: Oh, well, I just wanted to report a dead deer in the road that I just ran over. It's in the passing lane south of Grand Haven between Robbins Road and Hayes Street.

Operator: Was this today?

Me: Yes, it just happened.

Operator: Where is it?

Me: (Getting pretty exasperated) South of Grand Haven, between Robbins Road and Hayes Street. I thought someone should get it out of the way of traffic.

I really don't remember what she said after that. I'm glad I wasn't being robbed or raped or something. On the other hand, it might've pissed me off enough that I would've beaten the crap out of the idiot.