The Thing About Winter

Is it seems to last forever. And forever, I mean FOREVER! This is the longest winter that I can remember. I'm sure there've been lots longer winter with a lot more snow, but I can't remember them. Winter started in early October, if not before, this year. First there was a dusting or two of snow. Nothing too bad "cold" temperatures. Then came the ice storm in December. We had ice on the ground (and trees) from that until early January. And on top of the ice was several inches of snow. It seemed that it would never end. At the end of December, the family spend a few days in Ohio. It was sunny, 40 degrees, and dry ground. Not a spot of snow ANYWHERE! It was so nice. But then we came back. Snowy, cold, and predicting more snow. It seems as if snow has come at least once a week since we got back from Ohio. When will it ever end? Sometime, I hope.

But winter does make for some good picture taking times. So far, I've captured the last rose of the season encased in ice, a sunrise glistening off the ice on the trees, a sunset over a perfectly white horizon, a train passing as the snow was coming down, a doghouse encased in snow (literally), big mountains of snow piled up from blading streets and roads, and lots and lots of branches that fell during the ice storm. So many picture opportunities and not enough memory on the camera to capture them all. Either that or I don't have the camera...or I figure that someone else has already gotten that picture so many times, why take more?

The presidential causcus is today. I'm not old enough to vote, but it's so interesting to hear about everyone else's opinion on the canidates. I saw on the news the other day about Ann Coulter saying that she would support a Hilary Clinton over Mitt Romney (I think that's who it was...I'm probably wrong). I wasn't sure what to think about that. Supporting a full fledged lie over a half truth. True, a half truth is just as, if not more dangerous, than a full fledged lie, but endoursing a full fledged lie....what does that say about you? And wasn't the middle of last year really far too early to be starting to campaign for presidency? It's like saying to the president, "I don't like you. We're going to insult you as much as possible and tell you that we want you out RIGHT NOW!" That doesn't show very much respect for our national leaders. Even though we don't like them, we should still show respect for them. I'm not political. This paragraph probably made no sense and was probably screwed in several places. But that's just my opinion. It'll probably change as I get older. Who knows.

And so starts Lydia's campaign against early campaigning. :) I'll not say another word.