No snow here yet, but here are a few pictures from this this time of year several years ago on a trip to Switzerland.

It is 19 degrees here with a predicted high of 28! Oahu's north shore where it never gets below freezing.

I thought of your beautifully colored houses (and boathouses!) yesterday, Casey, as I drove through one of our Pennsylvania towns . . . all white. Color really is uplifting. (I should talk . . . my farmhouse is beige. LOL) My mom (and a rock) in 1945.

Stopped by Pymatuning Lake and the famed spillway where people toss bread into the water. Carp gather in the bowl of the spillway so thick that it is said that ducks walk on their backs competing for the bread. The walkways and surroundings have been added to make it a very attractive area since I was there 10 years or so ago. The fish were thick in the bowl of the spillway yesterday, but the water was so dark and choppy, I didn't get any decent pics of them. Here the ducks gather and slide down the rim of the bowl to get the bread.