Snow - it mostly looks pretty!

We are having a storm here in SoCal. According to all the reports it's going to be rainy and cold with snow at 1,000 feet - maybe even 500 feet in some areas.

Phoebe - skiing somewhere in SoCal I believe - late 80's.

I am happy to be inside - and happy that I have nowhere I have to be! But it made me think about snow and cold - and how glad I am not to live in it anymore.

10th East, Salt Lake City, 1972.

Not that I've even lived in it recently, but I do have enough snow memories to know that I don't want to live in it again.

Brian Head - early 90's maybe? Phoebe, Noah and Dad.

It's fun to play in.

Salt Lake City - Douglas Street in 1969.

And it makes for nice photographs.

Bonny and the blue Dodge truck - 10th East in Salt Lake City - 1972.

And it's fun to reminisce about the old days and snow gear - especially Bonny in her red-riding hood coat.

White Oak Avenue - Granada Hills CA - January 9, 1949.

Believe it or not, my snow memories actually go way back - to January 9, 1949, when it snowed for 3 days in Granada Hills. This is a shot of White Oak Avenue - a few blocks from where I grew up. My dad drove us all there to play in the snow. It snowed again in GH in 1967 and 1989, but it was brief - lasted less than a day. Apparently the snowfall of '49 was quite a production.

I mostly remember coming home with snowballs in our hands - and wondering what happened to them!! (I was 4 1/2 after all!!)

Thanks goodness for new forced air heating, well-planned heating ducts, a cozy fireplace, a comfy couch, and a great book!!

But I guess I'd better put some buckets around the family room - rainstorms seem to wake up weak spots in the family room roof!