Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Wishing for a WARM Wordless Wednesday....Priceless

Photograph Privately owned by P. Taylor
Winter, 2009
January, 2009
Below zero temperatures...
Blistery cold winds...
Black ice...
Frozen fingers...
Wet feet...
Ice covered highways...
Five inches of snow on side streets...
hmmmmmmmm.....
Photograph privately owned by P. Taylor

Mackinac Island, Summer 2008
Glorious sunshine...
Warm weather...
Soft breeze...
PRICELESS!!!
Okay, so this post is really not wordless, but it is a Wednesday and I am really wishing for warm weather!

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

I hope some warm weather comes your way. You definitely deserve it!

Taylorstales-Genealogy said...

Thank you Amy....I am hoping it warms up a little and we get some sunshine this weekend...I don't have to work--yippee!

Charley "Apple" Grabowski said...

I really hope you get your warm weather so you can pass it on this way! brrr

Taylorstales-Genealogy said...

Truth be told, I've actually had my share of winter weather, so anytime I can have warm weather and some sunshine I'll be happy. I understand now why there are so many "snowbirds" in Arizona and the warm, sunshine states in the winter months!

SpeakUp Librarian said...

Great contrast. Wish I were back on Mackinac too.
Sarah

my Heritage Happens said...

I hope you get warm weather soon! I am sure you are tired of the snow.

Evelyn Yvonne Theriault said...

"Blistery cold winds" - I couldn't have said it better myself!
I love the way you write. I'm new to genea-blogging and I'm having trouble getting started with writing about some of my pictures. I'm going to use your idea of dropping a few, well-chosen words under the picture.
Evelyn in Montreal
A Canadian family

Taylorstales-Genealogy said...

Thank you Msteri and Evelyn for visiting! Although it is still cold today, it is above zero and best of all the sun is shining!

The Family

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck

Genealogy Pox, author unknown

WARNING: GENEALOGY POX IS VERY CONTAGIOUS!

SYMPTOMS: Continual complaint as to need for names, dates and places. Patient has a blank expressions, sometimes deaf to spouse and children. Has no taste for work of any kind, except feverishly looking through records at libraries and courthouses.
Has a compulsion to write letters. Swears at mailman when he doesn't leave mail. Frequents strange places such as cemeteries, ruins, and remote desolate country areas. Makes secret night calls and hides phone bills from spouse. Mumbles to self. Has strange, faraway look in eyes.

NO KNOWN CURE!

TREATMENT: Medication is useless. This disease is not fatal, but gets progressively worse. Patient should attend genealogy workshops, subscribe to genealogical magazines and be given a quiet corner in the house where he/she can be alone.

REMARKS: The unusual nature of this disease is that the sicker the patient gets, the more he or she enjoys it!