Ice Storm
It is awful, awfully beautiful too.
Many of our trees are kissing the ground. Guess they know it is Valentine’s Day. 
My poor Bald Cypress, and magnolia tree (the green blob between the two downed bald cypresses). The Leland Cypresses in the background row usually hide all the houses behind them, but not today.
And our downed Willow Tree:
You can see the downed tree limbs behind the front tree. SK visited this area with Brutus and said that there are many tree limbs on the ground. I hope it all melts soon. We’re supposed to go to a Valentine Day Bowling Party at noon but unless the weather changes soon we won’t be going anywhere. It is back to freezing rain AGAIN. MK and Brutus are out walking around in this mess. At least both boys realize that Mom cannot go walking on ice yet; I’m barely walking around in the house.
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February 14th, 2007 @ 12:03 pm
I don’t expect we’ll make the party today either. Your yard looks beautiful!
February 14th, 2007 @ 1:32 pm
We just came in from walking the property.
I am so sad — so many of the trees we planted 4-5 yrs ago and were just starting to become beautiful, full trees and not look like sticks have lost their tops. And we are expected to have 30-40mph winds here later today which means we are going to lose even more. They all have at least an inch of ice on their limbs too so this will snap so many branches. Ugh, I’m sick, these trees are my babies too. The willow, 2 dogwoods, 2 oaks, all have broken tops already. ugh….what other ones will we lose?
February 14th, 2007 @ 9:26 pm
It’s so frustrating.
I’ll keep my fingers crossed that you don’t lose any more! Our trees dropped a lot of smaller limbs already. I’m hoping our roof can take it!
February 18th, 2007 @ 10:17 pm
Hey, I just saw your request for Latin texts at WTM.
www.Textkit.com has beginning readers online for free with annotations.
The Loeb’s series by Harvard is highly recommended. You can see all the titles here:
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/loeb/
I learned a whole lot of Greek because they have a side by side translation and I get them through interlibrary loan.