A Winter Wonderland

This week's weather has caused mass hysteria, hundreds of traffic accidents, and will end up tacking a few extra days onto the end of the year, delaying Summer Vacation for the kids...

But, it's also brought about some gorgeous visuals!

First up, and highlighted with great disgust, this is how much snow it took today to cancel school:



That's our front walkway, this morning as I was leaving for work. By that time, University Place Schools had already cancelled for today, and Tacoma was running 2 hours late. Yesterday both districts were closed, and there was far less - like ZERO - snow. As of this evening, both are closed tomorrow... Christmas Vacation came early this year!

Since I had the camera with me, I decided to pull over on my way out of Fircrest, to get an early-morning, snow-covered shot of our town Christmas Tree!



An hour later, I looked out my window at work and couldn't believe how hard it was snowing! Keep in mind, just on the other side of our building is the Foss Waterway, which usually keeps us from getting much snow. I think it took the day off today!



Thankfully, that level of snow didn't stick around for long...

Finally, back on Monday, there had been some light snow, followed by clearing and a spectacular sunset. This was the view from Danee's hospital window, on the 12th floor of St. Joseph Medical Center.



I was particularly struck by the single star in the sky!

Well, tomorrow is our court date for Danee! We're just praying that they don't do anything crazy like cancel court because of the weather... Updates will follow!