How Much Do You Like Winter?

i think that they didn't work it correctly...i'm surprised that i got 50 something, lol.....i feel more like it should have been five...

my sister and brother in law were looking to move once, and we went to see a property near them with 48 acres....so your picture kind of reminds me of that, they didn't take it for one reason, well kind of, there were only three rooms, so that meant that my mom and i if we came to visit had no where to sleep, there was a down stairs, but there wasn't a bedroom, and it would have been difficult to have built on an extra room, so..but it did have a shed, off, in the distance, like you do, and also my younger neice wanted a horse, my brother in law said, well we can get a horse, but we can't get the house, lol...she was about 11 at the time, so.....

i can't sleep, so this is what i do, yikes.......come to the computer.....

Thanks Susan.  I only have 9 1/2 acres - not near as big as your sister and brother-in-law were looking at.

Sorry Rick - it's just that Foxy said Winter looked pretty in pictures, but we all know that while pictures are fine, we don't want to be out in it...lol!  In that first picture, that's ice on the tree taking only a few weeks ago in our really deep freeze.  I took from inside the house our course...lol!

I can see that shimmer of Ice on the trees in that first picture, Cat.  It looks as if there might have been a bit of sunshine peeking through the clouds and putting a diamond shine on the limbs of the trees.   Ice covered trees in the sunlight make it look as though the world were made of glass.  

Thanks Cat, your pictures are beautiful.

I have seen my huge trees with a really heavy layer of ice on them in  the winterf of 1999/2000.   It was horrible with trees being dragged down all over the south.  It wwas an unprecedented storm that crippled and destroyed many old southern trees across the south.  The south was out of power for days while clean up and rewiring took place.  

The sun shone brightly on those ice laden trees and the world was beautiful as it covered the aching hearts of so many.  Limbs were constantly breaking and falling to the ground.  It looked and sounded like a war zone.  As the ice melted and fell to the ground, it was like diamonds falling all around the trees.  Even in the midst of chaos, cold, and no power, there was beauty all around us.  I nver want to see that again.

What happened to the trees was just horrid.  It took my beloved weeping willow 3 years to die.   I did all I could to save it.  It was just too damaged to survive.  Each year, another section did not bud out in spring.  I finally knew I had to have it taken out.  Broke My heart.  I had planted that tree myself and I loved it.  So beautiful.