A huge snow storm made its way up the East Coast this weekend, dumping between one and two feet of snow pretty much everywhere it went.  I measured 16-19″ in our back yard.  It was a pretty awesome storm, it started snowing Friday night and didn’t let up until sometime Sunday morning.  Naturally, we took a bunch of pictures of the snow, and you can click the picture below to see the album on Picasa.

Nana watching the snow

Nana watching the snow

I absolutely love snow.  To me, its what validates the cold weather during the winter.  If it isn’t snowing, it might as well be 70 out.  Unfortunately, snow doesn’t always play nicely with life as an adult.  Everyone rushes to the grocery store to stock up on supplies, more or less everything is closed or canceled, and it can be kind of a pain to get places.  Luckily, we didn’t have much in the way of plans for the weekend, so it didn’t bother us too much.  We did miss out on a couple holiday parties, which is sad, but that’s about it.  They’re not that great at plowing the roads around here either, so driving to work yesterday and today was a bit tricky, but my Jetta got me there safely.  For other people though, it was a lot worse.  The last day of finals at Maryland was cancelled, as were commencement ceremonies for the weekend.  Lots of my friends were trying to get home, since Christmas is next week, but their flights were canceled.  So I can totally understand why some people hate it so much.  But not me.  I guess I’ve been fortunate enough to not have any serious problems come from a snow storm, and any inconvenience is trivial in comparison to how much I enjoy watching and playing in the snow.  So I hope you enjoy the pictures, stay safe if you have to travel anywhere, and take some time to go play outside!