It's Sticking!!!!!

The two words that either strike fear in the hearts of Alabama drivers or glee in the hearts of children. Tonight I can report that after a spattering of sleet at noon, it appears that we will be now having a somewhat respectable Alabama snowfall. It's sticking and tomorrow I'll carefully step out with my camera and maybe have some current photos for you. Tonight I share a photo from two years ago, just outside my window. 

Snow Joke?

You need to know this. Here in Birmingham, we get maybe one snowfall a year. It usually lasts a day or two at the most. Last January 29, the weather gurus predicted a light dusting and what we got in spades was what is now dubbed, Snowmageddon! It shut the city down and thousands were stranded far from home in what was a huge event in our city. Oh I hear you all up there in the north snickering. Well we are a hilly city built between two mountains, no snow removal because we live in the south, and nobody knows what snow tires are. So we were in a predicament that we and the weather forecasters, have not forgotten. For the past week, we've had scare, after scare of ice? snow? icy snow? We've dodged the bullet but maybe, just maybe, tomorrow afternoon or night, we might seem some inches. Don't you worry about us. We have all been to the Piggly Wiggly and stocked up on our snow staples of choice. Some grab bread and milk. Others grab wine, wine and potato chips.

Today's shot is from a bank of snow photos I've had stashed for years. How many can I reasonably share in a week or so? I live for these days when I can drag out some more favorites. Stay tuned. You might get more new snow or you might get some potato chip/wine photos for a few days.

Bama Snow

Rockford Road International Airport closed due to snow

I think I've rubbed this in enough, but just in case... here in Alabama we have the best snow situation. Most of the time it snows, well we might have to close the city down for a day or two, but then it melts and life moves on.  Sometimes.. it's even better. Well it snows like the dickens and then the next day by noon we're back to normal. Talk about the best of both worlds!  That's what happened Wednesday night.  We had us a really pretty, fluffy snowfall but by morning we were all good to go!  I can't even remember a time we had snow when the schools were open that morning. Lord have mercy, we're acting like a bunch of Yankees around here! :)

My thanks to Maureen and Cliff Holt , Little Savannah Restaurant and Bar, who graciously allowed me to exhibit my photographs for the coming month. We had an opening reception tonight and I was so thrilled and touched that so many of my dear friends stopped in.  Special thanks to my daughter Kathleen and friend Martha Ann Doyal who helped me hang the exhibit. Without them, it would not have happened. My Right Brain has totally taken over.... I was pretty useless.

Big Love

Many of you know that I have had a not so secret love affair with a neighbor's.......red truck for some time. I bared my soul about the whole thing here. Since then, he's been parked down the driveway, and I've had to admire him from afar. Sigh! Well on Friday during the snow, I drove by, wistfully glanced his way, and there he was, lightly dusted with snow. What did I do you ask? Well I pulled over, jumped out and marched right down the driveway, that's what! Looking even better with snow on his * fender!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!!

* Merci to my technical advisor Wayne, who assured me that "the humpy thing over the tire" was a fender,not a bumper.

Another Magical Snowfall

This gives, "Oh I wish I was in the land of cotton....." a whole new meaning. Dried seed pods piled with snow, became winter's cotton crop!

Oh this was a delightful surprise. I was photographing my neighbor's beautiful evergreens, and I captured the cardinals in the background!

BADP Update - Baby, It's Cold Outside

This morning around 11:00am I went out in the car and it looked like this on

Highland Golf Course.

Now it's about 2:45 pm and it looks like this around my home~

And this

And this

became this, very quickly!

Santa Claws?

When it snowed a few weeks ago, this lion, and his matching pal, looked even more festive all decked out on my neighbors' front porch. Ho Ho Ho......grrrrrr.

DON'T FORGET!

I'll be giving away a Paris Through My Lens Calendar on Christmas Eve. Go to my Paris Blog

and leave me a comment letting me know you want to put your name in the chapeau for the drawing!

Snow Saw

Last Saturday's snowfall was just magical. Forgive me for posting more photos, but you must understand that snow here in Birmingham is such a rare sight, that we relish every minute and every image. Bear with me, not many more.