Friday, February 13, 2009

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

After a sudden and wonderful 5 inches of snow and lots of 20- degree weather, we were graced with an equally sudden and wonderful 60 degree day. It was bea-u-ti-ful!! In celebration of the warm day I took the kids on a walk to the "Duck Pond", braving a multitude of puddles and very deep mud. The pond at Fenimore Woods had frozen over so thickly that people were able to walk on it without concern. When we arrived the sun had already done it's work and melted a good portion of the ice, but the kids still ventured on a small safe looking part of the pond in spite of my protests. They seemed to take pleasure in scaring the living day lights out of me.
Unfortunately it's starting to get chilly again, but we enjoyed our short breath of spring in all its splendor and hope another one will come and stay very soon.

The snow day!
Johnny holding one of the last lumps of snow

MUD

Looking over the bridge

Abby is so cute!

So are Bekah and Lizzy

Walking along the pond

The disappearing ice

2 comments:

Leah said...

We have been having lots of sun too. Thanks for the photos, I miss the family

Mimi said...

Liz don't you know there's nothing more thrilling than walking on melting ice? It's more exciting than skydiving.