1/5 Ensemble

Ensemble of Glass Bottle In the Afternoon Light

1/5 Photograph Ensemble

Altogether / En Masse / Group

Thought for sure that I was going to have an off prompt photo for CY365 today because of the beautiful, icy trees outside until I took this picture. I was at an appointment this afternoon and these bottles just caught my eye with the afternoon light coming through them.  This is the original picture taken with my iPhone. I cropped it up to just have the bottles in the picture and did minimal processing lightroom. I think this year, I may have more pictures from the iPhone since it always handy, plus, it takes great pictures. 

Today, I put all the Christmas decorations away and I have to admit that I am now an artificial tree convert. It was simple, clean and no worries about the cats in the water. I also organized the ornaments and brought down 4 boxes of stuff to my basement where there were 4 more boxes of Christmas things that we didn't even use. Every time I brought something downstairs, I brought another thing up to the rubbish barrel. Nothing holiday related yet, but next year I am going to have three empty boxes for the boys to go through their grandparent's ornaments to pick what they would like to keep. I have enough already. 

5/365 Icy Bokeh 1/5 

I used a icy shot for the flicker 365 today. Our yard and driveway is just one big frozen mess. It was pretty in the sunlight, but nothing was melting, just glistening in the sun. To get to the rubbish barrels this afternoon, I had to put on the yak trax to safely make it down and back. I did get a bit scared when the wind picked up and I could hear the branches moving. After our ice storm in Thanksgiving, the broken branches are more of a concern because not everything came down when they broke, still some just hanging on other branches.

My poor lilac bush still hasn't recovered from November's storm and the ice today isn't helping.

The garden today had some interesting ice formations.

Alternative parking now occurring since we have lost a space until this tree melts.

Obligatory cat picture of the week- The two boys were cuddling last night...

Storm damage- 65 mph Winds

Storm damage
Originally uploaded by jennymcb

Could have been worse, could have been my neighbor's house where a tree landed on their roof. Because of the ice storm last year, we had 12 trees taken down last fall. One of them used to hang over the corner of the house where you see the two windows and it was frightening to think that it was that close to the house. We have a lot of pine branches to clean and no power, but like I said, it could have been worse. Strange winter!
The news station is saying a couple of days until we get power, guess I should have planned on a shower here at work. But I wasn't in the mood for showering in the morgue today, just wasn't in my plans. With a raging stream out back, we have water for the toilets, a wood stove in the family room, we have heat, gas grill on the porch, we have hot food and a ton of games, we will have fun. Won't be doing too much surfing the net, iphone connection is iffy at best. Hope you all have a good weekend!

Life after Ice

We're back!! We got Comcast yesterday morning after losing our power, go figure. But we were lucky and the power came back on early this morning at 1:30 am. Thank you God for record high temperatures yesterday. That big old branch on the line is still making me nervous, and snow is in the forecast for tomorrow. But we still have lots of line crews here from all across the country and even from Canada helping us to get back on the grid and all of us appreciate their time away from their families to help our state get back to normal. Have to say though, it's nice to have had a girl in the house as we have had a guest from a home that was without power from Friday until tonight. We played games such as Life, Uno, Racko and Apples to Apples. Life without the internet and phone was manageable, it was actually enjoyable.

School is suppose to happen tomorrow. Keeping my fingers crossed for that one. Here are a few photos of the aftermath.

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