Gleaning Facebook: Snow in Rome!

I posted these pictures on Facebook of Rome in the snow, February 12 and 13, 2014 .

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With the snow there is an eerie light on the street. So I got out the old tripod and took some night pics of our house in the snow.

See the jonquils, still pushing up, but blooms rolled tight in the bud twelve days into February.

Our neighbors houses --

Wow. I ought charge you for this one Nena Dake! Your house looks great in the snow.

Trumpet vine with dried seedpods and snow.

Even unkempt crepe myrtle looks great in the snow.

Our backyard. That doggone Leyland Cypress was just a three foot sapling when I planted it -- much too close to the house as it turns out. It's pretty in the snow though.

Trinity in the snow.

The science teacher in me wanted to take this picture. Why is the snow slightly deeper over the white lines in the church parking? The white reflected more of the sun's heat during the day and so was cooler and the snow "stuck" quicker there than on the warmer black asphalt.

I live on a pretty street. Terry & Joan Ledbetter live at the left, and Nena Dake at the right. When our kids were little and we were new to the neighborhood, Frank Logue and Victoria Steele Logue with their little daughter Griffin lived in the Ledbetter house.

Our church in the snow.

I live on a pretty street. Terry & Joan Ledbetter live at the left, and Nena Dake at the right. When our kids were little and we were new to the neighborhood, Frank Logue and Victoria Steele Logue with their little daughter Griffin lived in the Ledbetter house.

Can you think of many things more wasteful than bulldozing mounds of fill materials into this beautiful wetland to make new solid land on which to build just another strip mall.

Burwell Creek winds out of Blossom Hill and Jackson Hill (two of Rome's famous Seven Hills) before emptying into the Oostanaula directly across the river from my home. Its wetland helps to store flood waters, helps to filter pollutants and debris that would otherwise dirty our rivers, provides habitat for fascinating critters and green things, and connects our Jackson Hill public natural, recreational, and historical area with Ridge Ferry Park. Those three parts make up our "Central Park".

I live on a pretty street. Terry & Joan Ledbetter and Nena Dake, Frank Logue, Victoria Steele Logue

The Burwell Creek winds out of Blossom

Hill and Jackson Hill (two of Rome's famous Seven Hills) before emptying into the Oostanaula directly across the river from my home. Its wetland helps to store flood waters, helps to filter pollutants and debris that would otherwise dirty our rivers, provides habitat for fascinating critters and green things, and connects our Jackson Hill public natural, recreational, and historical area with Ridge Ferry Park. Those three parts make up our "Central Park".

tains of earth to fill this beautiful wetland so it can become a parking lot?

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