Snow has covered Seattle and it’s coooolllddd (in the 20s). Every few years we get a big snow that sticks and covers everything and is fun to play in. It’s hazardous to drive in and everyone has to stay home (or risk life and limb trying to get somewhere in the car).
Of course, I love it. School is closed! Jammie days galore! Hot chocolate! Making snowpeople! Sledding down tiny hills in our sled! Watching the chickens walk around on the crazy white stuff! And, of course, knitting!
Yesterday we went to the park next door with the neighbor kids with the intent of making snowpeople. The kids ended up making a snow hill. There was another guy in the park with a huge shovel who told us he was making a snow mountain range (it was a specific one, but I stopped paying attention after “snow mountain range.”). We did see several snowpeople that had been made by earlier arrivals. I give you:
This one is a little hard to see, but it is a rendition of Calvin’s (of Calvin and Hobbes) dinosaur with terrified snowpeople. This one cracked me up!
This looks to me like a snow rendition of the Ghost of Christmas Present from Dicken’s A Christmas Carol.
The playground in the park has the theme of Children’s Literature. Perched on the surrounding columns there are several amazing sculptures by a local artist that reflect this theme. This is Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree, now with its own snowperson.
The top photograph is of Madeleine‘s “old house in Paris that was covered with vines.” Of course, it’s now “covered with snow” but that wouldn’t fit the rhyme as well. Miss Clavel should get inside–she must be freezing.
