Snowy Winter

We have been having a very snowy winter! Normal snowfall for Boston is just over 40 inches. So far, we've had 70 inches, and there's snowfall in the forecast for this evening, Tuesday, Thursday, ... We have to make it to 107 to break the record, but it looks to me like we're well on our way!

Winter weather brings an irresistable need to take pictures, and I've taken my share this winter. Here are a few of my favorites:

(Can you tell that's a picnic table?)

... and some icicle photos for my dad:

Signs of Christmas at our House

(And a quick tip for all of you perfectionists out there frustrated with your bow tying abilities: turn your package upside down and then tie the bow. I've found this works every time and saves me much agony!)

Do I Have the Greatest Husband Ever, or What?

Packages

Today is my birthday. I'm thirty. Aaugh!!!!

Look at these beautiful packages! My husband knows me well - he went to some extra effort to find packaging I would like (and I do!), and then he wrapped them all up last night and set them up in our living room so that I could look at them for a day. (I'm not one of those people who wants to peek.)

He says he is excited to have me open them. It is always a good thing when the person giving you a present is excited about it!

Some Old Pictures (doesn't that sound exciting?)

It's Sunday, and if you've been keeping track, Sunday seems to be my day for putting up a blog post. However, there hasn't been anything forming into a blog post in my mind lately. Not to say there hasn't been a lot rattling around in there. Just nothing I'm ready to let come out yet. I know, Sarah - one of my faults.

Friday night, Brian took me to hear the Tallis Scholars. They are an a capella choir that sings Renaissance music. If that doesn't mean anything to you, you can watch them perform here:



They were amazingly beautiful sounding. We were in row Z, on the side behind a row of big marble pillars, so we couldn't see them at all. It didn't really matter, though, because I couldn't keep my eyes open. I wasn't falling asleep; I just didn't want to see anything.

OK, on to my old pictures.

When Tyler and Wendy were here, we went up to the highest point in Boston open to the public - the 50th Floor of the Prudential Tower. Brian and I love to look out over the city when we fly, but something about being up there was different. Maybe it was that we got time to look, and it was a little bit closer than being in an airplane.

When we first got up there and I ran around looking out all the windows, I was really struck by how big of a city we live in. Maybe the fact that we walk around it so much makes it feel small, but when you really look out over it all together, wow.

So, here are two - the first looking toward the bay and the second looking west. (I always have to think twice about cardinal directions here. The water being on our east side throws me off.)




And lastly, one at night (also looking .... west). We went at the perfect time - just before the sun set.

Photography Inspiration

It's pretty fun to have a camera for whenever inspiration strikes. I'm loving that mine has a "Macro focus" option, so I can get up close!