Location Taken: Freeville, New York
Time Taken: December 2010
I had a long drive today, from southwestern Ohio to central Maryland. Eight hours or more in the car, five hundred miles or so, all the way across the Appalachian mountains.
We normally head home on January first each year, but we delayed to the second to spend another day where we where. And it let us avoid driving through the snow storm that hit the area on the first.
There was a nice snow cover where we started, crunching in that way only very cold snow does. There was snow in the foothills along the Ohio River. There was some nice thick snow high in the mountains of West Virginia. There was even snow in Hagerstown and Frederick, in the foothills on this side of the mountains.
And, well, about twenty miles away from home, the snow petered out. There’s not even a hint of ice here.
Figures.
So have a lovely snow-covered plant-flower-thing to celebrate the snow that almost made it all the way along with us on our trip, but decided not to finish the journey.
