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

The First Storm of 2011

These folks were building an igloo.
You can hardly see the red hand on the crossing signal.
The storm was really windy, which is why the snow is caked to the sides of everything.

The End of 2010

These photos are out of sequence, but let me see if I can make sense of them. The photo above is from New Year's Eve. A bunch of us went out to dinner then had a sleepover at Greg's brother and sister-in-law's house. Greg's and my trip to San Diego for a late Christmas (we spent December 25 with his family) and New Year's was canceled due to the first blizzard Boston's had in the last five years. We were really bummed, but made the best of things here.
Greg and I visited friends in Connecticut and we went to Sushi California. It was a pretty good stand-in for my favorite sushi restaurant, Sushi Deli in San Diego. Some restaurants here don't have their liquor licenses but will let you bring your own. They're BYOB restaurants. Champagne and sushi is a great combo.
Can you see that I'm laying on the bed with Billy laying on my back?
Playing in the snow the morning after the blizzard. A blizzard is a snow storm that's characterized by visibility of a quarter mile or less, winds in excess of 35 miles an hour, and lasts for at least three hours.



Check out all that snow on the cars!







In the photo below, can you see the blowing snow?
These poor leaves are doing all they can to hold up all that snow.