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It sure looks pretty.

My favorite story related to V's photo was by someone who used to work at the Santa Cruz boardwalk. It goes, the tourists used to ask if that view was Hawaii. No, the workers would say, Hawaii is further South. That's Japan.
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Oh yes. Nothing last year, not a peep until now. :(. I wanna go sledding!! And see Central Park in the snow.
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We're expecting a blizzard starting tonight. There's still time to make it up here!
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Frelga :rofl:

Jude: Get ready.. get set.. GO! :P

Inanna, oh yes, it's pretty but it can be very dangerous when it's this heavy & wet. The winds are up to 40mph gusts and trees break hitting houses, power goes out, etc.. We've got a couple of trees I'm eyeing... Also, if the power goes out we have no water, cannot flush toilets, etc.. I've got buckets of water filled in the tub. The temperatures are going to drop this weekend to below zero. (-18 to -25C) so it probably won't melt until March/it won't melt any time soon.

Perhaps I'll post more photos after it's done. Here's our patio set. The snow isn't supposed to stop for about another 24 hours.
You're welcome to come sledding, once the roads are cleared in a day or so. ;)
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Holy. Okay - a little less than that would be fine too. :P
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View from campus of the University of California at Santa
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Lovely. We definitely live in very different parts of the country V.

Here's (another) snow pic.
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Beautiful, but challenging.
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Yay. We got snow!!

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Lovely photos Inanna. It looks like a nice, manageable amount of snow. What is that first building?

Our little wonderland.
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That’s Belvedere “castle”. A little fairytale building in Central Park.
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What is it used for? It's very pretty. I wonder if we saw it (from a different angle) when we were there. Central park is huge, so we may have missed it.
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Ooop.. we just watched some video from our NY trip (2006) and we're in that tower/castle! My memory stinks! :doh:
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Well there's a lot to see in NY.
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Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 11:47 pm Well there's a lot to see in NY.
Very true! It was our first vacation trip to a large city and we were pleasantly surprised by all of the wonderful things; the street festivals, open museum week, all kinds of things we hadn't planned, in addition to the wonderful things we did plan.
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And really that toy castle is the least memorable part of nyc.
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More rain; more rainbows

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Red shouldered hawk by the railroad tracks in the rain and sunshine
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Very nice photos!
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Thank you! I thought so too.
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