Winter this year has been a memorable one…with maybe the coldest couple of days and nights still to get through. I can’t remember a year when it’s being so iced-up as it has been this year. Walkways, driveways and streets are nearly impossible to clear. Manpower just isn’t worth the effort in most cases and won’t do the job anyway. They just have to wait for a warm-up to give an assist. But that’s coming. Every day it gets closer. The sun comes up a couple of minutes earlier every morning and sets a couple minutes later in the evening. It eventually adds up.
All in all it hasn’t been that difficult. I’m staying inside a little more than normal, but still getting everything done. The only thing I’ve really missed is being able to walk or run outside lately. It’s just too icy and not worth the risk of breaking or pulling something in order to do it. Instead, I adapt, and do other kinds of things inside.
My prediction. This is the turning point. Two more days, then the pendulum swings in the opposite direction…and it keeps getting warmer, all the way to Spring and beyond. Just like always, winter loosens it’s grasp a day at a time, and soon all it will be is a memory.
I’ll have photos like this to remind me.
This feathered Indianapolis resident and a number of their relatives were enjoying a sun bake at downtown’s exclusive outdoor solar spa. If the sun’s shinning and it’s the right time of day, the angle from the sun hitting the highly reflective bronze-colored windows of the tall building just to the north on Delaware Street beams down upon and raises the temperature significantly of certain spots on the brick courtyard patio at the City Market. It feels 15-20 degrees warmer than the outside air if you are in the right spot. That sounds great on a cold day like today. But thinking this through, what happens on a 95 degree day in August? There could be casualties! Sun-stroked pigeons who have innocently stumbled into the path of the solar flare.
