Life in the Snow

Icicles in French are stalactites. They don't have a unique word if it's made out of ice.
In the suburbs, it's not always required that you shovel your sidewalk, I guess because there are fewer pedestrians. If a home owner does shovel his sidewalk, it's often a path from the driveway to the front door.
Greg and I don't have to drive to work, thankfully, but we do have to dig the car out occasionally.
The snow is pushed from the street and the sidewalk to the parkway, the usually-grassy strip between. So during this very snowy winter, that snow bank got pretty high. I had fun falling back into it.

My Snowy Walk to Work (January 27)

It's just half a mile to work. Most of it is on sidewalk, but there is a small "greenway" that I walk across.
The snowplows get the streets cleared pretty quickly in the city. There are several universities along the main street of my walk to work. They hire people to clear the sidewalks when it snows. They usually clear a path from the sidewalk to the street at the corners. Here, you can see the paths cut through the snow banks.

Have a seat?

Someone had walked along the Quad before me, and his boots pushed imprints from his treads out of the snow.
See the imprints in the snow?

Cancun, January 2011

Greg and I went to an all-inclusive resort outside Cancun - Moon Palace - with Greg's brother and sister-in-law (Mark and Shaney), Shaney's friend Cheryl, Shaney's brother Galen, and his friend Pat. We had an awesome time.


Mayan ruins of Tulum


These two iguanas got into it right after I took this photo.



The trip wasn't just about iguanas, but there were many.




Crocodile


Setting up for a beach wedding