Storm's aftermath

A storm rolled through on Thursday (no surprises there!) and so much rain fell so quickly that the rain covered the street from curb to curb. That's a little unusual, but only a little: there are no drains on our short street. The water needs to flow down to State Street (at the far end of this photo.)

The amazing thing is that we had hail and torrential rain and ten minutes later the sun was shining again.

My street in summer

I'm not sure I'd call it the height of summer, given all the recent rain, but it's probably as high as it's going to get this year. This is what my street looks like today. Everything growing at a frantic pace, from every scrap of soil.

The flower of the week? Hosta. You can see some on the right. We have several species of hosta ourselves, as we don't get a tremendous amount of sun.

Compare this photo to one taken in winter.

Falling snow

I was too lazy to go out and take a real photo, so I stepped outside, snapped this and called it a day. I feel a bit ashamed, but this is what the weather has been like. We've got 3 inches of new snow and are expecting 8 more during the day today. Many of the sidewalks have an inch o hard packed ice on them, so it's going to be tricky walking for a while. The good news is that the temperature will rise almost to the freezing point, which will seem like a heat wave!

My street

This is a view of my street. The markings on the utility poles are new. It looks like someone is getting ready to do some work on the street because gas lines are being marked with paint.

I can't wait to find out what's going to happen!