Oh the weather outside was frightful...

We had crazy weather last weekend and at the beginning of this week. It snowed Friday night, was gone by mid-morning on Saturday, and then the snow started again, in earnest this time, early Saturday afternoon. It left world in a veil of white that lasted into Sunday. Then, it started raining. And raining, and raining, and raining. And then it rained some more making Monday (or was it Tuesday) the second rainest Seattle day on record. We've been able to avoid any power outages, flooding or long road detours--if only everyone had been so lucky! The duck pond in front of our apartment overflowed onto the patio area--the ducks loved the extra paddling territory! (Unfortunately, they didn't make an appearance in the photo...I suppose it was pouring at the time...)





The onset of cool weather always makes us start wishing for a cozy fire. We finally had our first fire of the winter a few weeks back. It was great! We would have had more since but one or both of us have been sick and the dryness and possible smoky atmosphere brought on by a hearth fire wasn't on the list of things to improve our health. Soon though...soon! I liked how the following photo turned out.