Well, now that the pictures have been up for a couple of days, I can tell our story. I wish I could say that I enjoyed going out to take pictures after the ice storm, but it was actually an afterthought and the ice was almost gone. We were without power from Tuesday night through Saturday night but luckily we were able to score a generator and had all the necessities - heat, fridge, 50" plasma, one lamp...you know all the important stuff. The worst part of all this was Tuesday night. David woke me up at 1am to tell me part of our tree had fallen on my car so he moved both of our cars across the street away from the trees. We then decided to sleep in the living room since our bedroom was right under the huge tree in our frontyard (see first picture). I was a little freaked out by all the big limbs falling on our house so Andrew and I curled up on his bottom bunk bed. I thought if a tree hit the house at least we would be somewhat protected and in the back of the house where there aren't as many trees. I didn't fall back to sleep until 7am and by then it was getting pretty cold in our house. The next day it got down to 56 degrees in the house before we got a generator hooked up. We even had a couple of refugees at our house one night. David's parents lost power too and spent one night at our house since we at least had heat. I didn't actually get out and take pictures until Friday and Saturday since we were so occupied with surviving and getting things back in order at our house. I really enjoyed taking pictures on Saturday since I was alone and could go where I wanted. Now that life is back to normal I can start back to work this week. If you have called me or emailed me and haven't gotten a response just try again and I apologize in advance if you were lost in the shuffle.
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I call this one "Ta Da!" It kinda looks like Andrew is taking credit for all the destruction in front of our house.
The little spruce in our front yard survived another year so that he can be warmed by Christmas lights again next year.
"Pretty please, can I come out to play?" Koda wanted out so bad!
This is our neighbor's huge spruce peeking out amongst all the ice and snow.
The wood pile from the tree that fell back in September. We don't have a fireplace so it is in our neighbor's backyard.
Andrew only built the bottom ball of a snowman before he got too cold and had to go in. We were so busy that we never had time to finish it.
Yes, I told him to do this and no, he wasn't really doing it. I told him what would happen if he really did it.
Friday evening sunset while were were heading home from Chandler.
I took a few shots from McDonald Golf Course on Morgan Avenue but as I was walking around hearing the ice crunch under my feet I was worried I might step onto a pond or lake and left rather quickly.
Another shot from the same golf course.
This is the Pigeon Creek Bridge on Stringtown Road.
I have always loved this covered bridge at the 4H Center and I realized that I love it even more in snow.
Very long icecicles on one of the barns at 4H.
There were about 50 geese in a field by the new Menard's store on Green River Road. They stuck around for me to photograph them as long as I stayed in the car.
A perfect end to the day on Saturday was the sunset on South Green River Road by the Henderson Bridge.
