Frozen

The Monongahela River is beautifully frozen, and fool that I am I had to get pictures of it. Since my little hamlet of Charleroi on Mon doesn't have any good spots for picture taking I went to Monongahela to snap my pictures.

I was thrilled to see a rivergull (Hey, the sea is about 7 hours away and Lake Erie's about 3...so these are river gulls cos I said so!)



The river was gorgeous and it was damn amusing to watch the gulls and ducks walking on the ice. (While I stood shivering with my nephew)



I was quite pleased to catch the gull in flight in this one. It turned out quite nice.


Here's a wide shot with the Monongahela Bridge in the background.



After we finished taking these shots I drove to Mingo Creek Park. (Yes, Jill, there are covered bridge pictures) I witnessed a rather large hawk making short work of a ....erm...FISH! Got a little teary eyed there. I have some gorgeous shots around the Henry and Ebeneezer Bridges which I'll post at the photoblog later. Right now I just want to thaw out.

Where's The Heat?

It's so cold. Very Very Cold. My Fish-icle reported that it is -3 outside with a windchill of -20. Oh hell. Why don't real people have 2 hour delays? Why? Why? Why?

I refuse to take off my sleep sockies right now. They are the only thing keeping me even a little warm right now.

Where is this early spring that the damn groundhog predicted? Seriously, I'm going to go all nutso on the groundhog. I demand my spring and I demand it now. I demand unseasonably warm. I demand to feel the effects of global warming right f-ing now!

And again why can't I have a 2 hour delay? Hell in this cold I want an 8 hour repreive!

It's too cold to step outside the door. To be perfectly honest at -3 it's too damn cold to be anywhere but under the covers with a dog at my feet and a cat sleeping on my back.

Now if someone could convince my boss that a frozen secretary is not a good thing I'd be a very happy camper, however that's not going to happen so I'm going to have to somehow thaw myself out so I can refreeze myself and go to work. Blech!