7 March 06--blue skies, for real this time

On Sunday, we were treated to some gorgeous intermissions between snow showers. Here's a picture I took as I paused for a moment on the way home from church. Now that we are on our last months here I am striving to savor every curve in the road, every field, every snowy tree. This has turned into the most spectacular March we've yet to experience here. The quality of the light has changed significantly over the past 2 weeks. If the entire winter were like this, as opposed to gray days filled with rain, I doubt I'd crave Spring at all. Instead, this month has turned into a rich, sweet dessert after a rather long, bland 4 course dinner.

Here's a picture from the day before. The snow was falling so heavily that it appears here like a veil over the scene.

7 March 06---blue skies

After a straight week of daily snow showers, we are encountering gorgeous blue skies today. So why am I including a cloudy picture of Laurel shoveling snow? To show what a harder worker she was during this storm. On the particular day pictured, we had to shovel our walk 5 times and Laurel was out there for 3 of them. You see, in Germany if you do not shovel your walk and someone slips in front of your home then you can be held accountable for their injury. All over our village people were out together chit-chatting and shoveling. I absolutely love it here.