Thursday, December 25, 2008

I'm dreaming of a slushy Christmas

Some idyllic Christmas scenes:

The winter wonderland that is the bucolic New Jersey Turnpike, where we dodged big hunks of snow and ice flying off of trucks...



...and a last bit of snow in Soho in a cold Christmas Eve rainstorm...



...alas, all that's left now is the occasional patch of dirty slush in the roadways. Sigh. But it's still better than DC, which has only had a few snowflakes this year.

Meanwhile, a former neighbor of Gretchen's family sent us this picture of the current owner of her former childhood home using a snowblower on the roof so that it doesn't cave in under the weight of all the snow they've had this season. And Gretchen wonders why I'm not so eager to move to Wisconsin:



ADDENDUM: Across the street from my brother's house this afternoon...does this qualify as a white Christmas?