Ice Capades

At first we got iced in, then we got iced out. Last Wednesday I posted photos of birds feeding around our house. We had an ice storm and I could not get to work, so I took some photos. On Thursday, I made it to work and took the photos posted below. When I arrive home that afternoon, we had lost power at the house and it was freezing cold. We packed up a few things and spent the night at our grand crew's home. Since then we spent two nights in hotels and three additional nights with the grand crew. We were without power for six days and since our home is total electric, that means no heat, no hot water, no lights, no nothing!!! The power came back on around 7:00 p.m. last night. It was the first good nights sleep I had in a week. There were over 150,000 people in Arkansas that joined us in this power outage. We were fortunate though. There was no damage to our home. Many people had tree limbs crashing through their roofs in the middle of the night. Others saw beautiful mature trees in their yards shredded by the ice. But even in the worst of the weather there is beauty if you look for it. Here are a few photos I took around our office building.

Wordless Wednesday

The Ice Storm of 2009

Ruby Tuesday

Do you remember this photo of Nandina berries that Posted a few months back? Well, we are in the middle of an ice storm and the berries are still hanging in there. They're ice covered this time, but it still makes for an interesting photo.