I was taking pictures after the ice storm yesterday when a flock of waxwings landed in the hedge. I was thrilled to finally get a nice photo of them. Sorry I don't honestly know if they are cedar waxwings or bohemian waxwings...to me they were just beautiful and made the most wonderful "shrilling" sound. They look like they are in a crystal world. I posted this on the bird forum and they think they are bohemian.

When I saw the pic of the white dog playing in the snow, it reminded me of a series of pictures indicating the snow the Canadians get used to that one of the old guys that meet for coffee at one church brought to pass around last Thursday, to put a smile or two on our faces. And we had it cold, about 15 degrees F. over the weekend, with snow and wind to push it around. When I looked out the bathroom window one morning, lots of snowflakes were going by, with their line of travel being just slightly below horizontal at their point of departure than it was at their entry point. Figured it'd be a good day to stay inside. ole joyfuelled ... with gratitude for, if not actually "fuelled" by ... furnace oil

unfortunately it doesn't drain well. This is under the house, on the far south west side. Long army crawl to get there... and I had to dig the trap out, to make that picture. I called the home warranty people and should have a plumber out before long. I am tired of trying to let the machine drain a pipe load at the time.

On a trip to Switzerland several years back we took a scenic train trip up into the mountains. There were beautiful views from the train The train stopped at a small village on the Switzerland/France border and we visited a small shop with large chocolate