first snow

Our first snow of 2008. It started early this morning and has been snowing all day, it's now 4pm and still light snow. This is the kind of snow that is light, wet and not sticking (yeah). As much as I hate winter and dream of summer, I have to admit it did look pretty outside with the light snow falling and gently covering everything white outside. I decided to let the pictures share with you what I saw today on my walks. Very pretty on a cold almost too dark day in winter at 2pm. (click on any picture to enlarge)


my front/side door--just thought this pic was too cool to pass up


my side yard under the old trellis--can you see the rose vine?
so pretty in the spring when it's in full bloom.


my backyard. something about the blanket of snow that makes everything so clean & fresh. see that bottle to the right? that's a bottle of Prosecco we shared one late August night when the temp. was 80 degrees at 7pm. I remember vividly the crickets that would sound-surround our house with croaking all night long; I loved that intensity.


my front yard, my neighbors to the left and straight ahead is our barn/garage. can you see the church tower on the left in the back? many decades ago that was a church; it later became a museum, then an antique shop, a doll museum, B&B and now it's owned by some very wealthy couple that bought it, gutted it, fixed the tower, added in stained glass windows, only to live there a few times a year. I saw the inside when it was a B&B and it was very cool; think gothic inside with a lot of light, stained glass windows and all open rooms, even the bathrooms (like a giant loft in SoHo).

those stained glass windows look wonderful when the sun is out.



the front of the above remodeled old church/now a home.



these are my neighbors to my right of my house. I loved this pic because in the summer this street is lined with tourist cars & tourist walking about...just seems like such a ghost town (which I love).



the street on which that other blue church sits, down the road a bit another church.
this one is a functioning church.



we have a lot of churches in this area.


I just loved this pic, sidewalk on main street in front of the church.



down the road from the above pic, our old Town Hall, still functioning in a way for meetings and the like, but the main town hall moved down the street to a move energy efficient building. aren't those columns cool though? hard to tell from this pic, but the building is really tall.



across from the Town Hall are these old fences over-looking the brook that feeds to the marsh.



Tiki checking out the falling snow.


then sitting in front of the heating vent in the hall


decides he prefers the heating vent by my desk.



this is why I'm always so cold! he covers the whole vent!