Thursday, February 26, 2009

Half a continent

I am back in the North. An uneventful flight into a very snowy Minnesota ended on time with a fairly smooth landing. The last sunset in Florida is a stunning contrast to what awaited me in my beloved home state.


Herb picked me up and we drove home on unplowed Saintly City streets. The van in front of us on the Lexington hill fishtailed incessantly and nearly failed the climb. Herb's green machine was easily equal to the task, however. We stopped on Linwood because a young lady in a Mazda was stuck in the middle of the street. We pushed her out to get her home a block away as she cursed the day she bought that car. It had no traction in the snow.

Then we came home and shoveled the several inches (WCCO says 7.2 inches of snowy loveliness in St Paul) of new snow off the apron behind the garage and the sidewalks around the house - in the dark. I enclose a photo as contrast to the Florida scene a day earlier.



Home at last.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That's a harsh contrast, TT. Still, home is home. Michigan got the southern side of the storm, with rain and thunderstorms. Spring will be here soon.