Beauty and the Beast

I usually don't have the date on my photos...I really think it makes managing them very difficult. Sometimes the date causes an editing nightmare and many times the best part of the picture is under the date. We activated the "date" on the camera to take pictures of meteorites Ron was going to be showing at the Tucson Rock and Mineral Show. So it is with mixed feelings that these pictures are so embellished. The date is there for histories sake but detracts at the same time.


The storm was strange because it started with freezing rain, followed by only about 2 inches of snow. The kicker was the return of freezing rain that covered the top of the snow with about half an inch of ice. That's when everything literally collapsed.

Trees and branches snapped. Power lines down.

Yet the sun made an effort to shine through all this white and ice.

Even in all its destruction the ice was a beautiful as finest crystal.

And then there was the glow of the magnificent kerosene heater that would heat my water for tea. In all this we were without electricity from our provider for 5 days. Had Ron and Roy not been courageous enough to travel to Terre Haute in this to get the generator we might have had a quite different "adventure." We were fortunate. And we are grateful to God that there were no deaths here as a result of the storm.

I would ask you to pray for the people of Western Kentucky as even now there is an entire county without power. They have to replace 125 poles that were snapped before electricity can be restored.

Wishing you all a grand weekend. As COLD and miserable as it was last weekend here, today the temperatures are supposed to be in the 50's. We''ll be cleaning up here.

~~~^j^~~~

Thanks be to God!
I hear birds chirping outside my window!