Moving On

The page on the calendar has turned and we move on into 2007. Rachel and Chris went home Friday after the worst of the storm had passed. They have to drive across the Rocky Mountains to Grand Junction, near the Utah border, which this time was easier going perhaps. We didn't get much snow here, but the highways to the east and south were closed by the blizzard, with drifts of 10 feet (3 metres) and more closing roads and stranding travellers.

Abbie left today (Tuesday) with Mark and Joy to go back to Arkansas. The roads should have been cleared by now, but I'm sure they will see a lot of snow on the way. Hopefully the 12-hour trip won't be much longer than that. I will be flying out of Denver on Thursday about noon and should arrive in Madeira about noon the following day. This will probably be my last posting until I get back home. Here is a sampling of pictures taken in the last few days.

There wasn't a lot of snow here, but the cold that came after the storm left the trees covered with frost before the rising sun melted it off.




























































The dead, brown flowers of summer stubbornly poke through the snow and contrast with its whiteness. "For all flesh is as grass, and the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: but the word of the Lord endureth forever." 1 Peter 1:24-25

























By day the sun casts its rays through the fences, and at nightfall, the full moon rises over the same field.