The ninth day of the second month of the year of the Camellia

"A FINE MESS YOU'VE GOTTEN US INTO, OLLIE!"

Well that's the Mid Atlantic! Here we go again.

Now you folks in the Midwest and Canada think nothing of this but when they tell Congress not to come in for a week or maybe two...............well that's the other side of the coin. A great deal of snow brings a whole lot less BS!

Seriously though those folks in Maryland, Delaware, Eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey just are not used to a two foot snow storm followed quickly by another foot and a half. My heart goes out to them and my common sense tells them to just hunker down...it'll all be gone by August.

The photo today was made in Maryland after a very nice "Manageable" snow storm, when the sun came out, on the second day, early in the morning and we humans had not messed it up.

But a critter did and to this day I am not sure what made the tracks. I have a hunch it was a neighborhood cat, a rabbit, or a very short man on a pogo stick. That's the fun of tracks in new snow-----you can be so imaginative about what transpired. And that's a great part of the fun of pristine snow.

It was a wet snow which clung and that makes it all the more beautiful.

The image is almost monochromatic.....for the folks in Rio Linda....that's one color. The pine tree provides the majority of the color, other wise it would have been black and white for the most part.

Just my friends who are not used to so much snow.....

Do yourself a favor.........

And hire a kid to shovel for ya...........

Less heart attacks that way!

By the way, Ollie was Olliver Hardy of "Laurel and Hardy" fame. Way back when the wagons were going across the country. For my grand kids.........google it and find a clip. Very funny stuff!