Moments in Time

We got hit with another winter storm this weekend. I'm not wild about snow, but usually I just grumble a bit and live with it... but, when it interferes with our family tradition of going to cut down our Christmas tree, well, that's another matter!

Last weekend's trip to the tree farm was iced out. This weekend's trip was looking pretty dicey, but fortunately, we didn't get as much snow as they thought possible. That, and I have a husband who doesn't mind driving around in the snow! The first place we stopped was deserted. I guess they didn't think anyone would be crazy enough to drive around in the snow to hike through snow to cut down their own tree. Well, we're that crazy, apparently!

We wound up at our usual place, Log Providence Pines. Even I had to admit this was a beautiful sight:

Of course, we spent a good 30 minutes trekking through the snow to find a good one about 4 rows from the entrance! Isn't that how that always works? Here are some photos of our adventure. Click on any of them to see them larger.




And here's DH with our beautiful tree (which unfortunately had to spend the weekend defrosting in my garage so it's not up yet):



The weather interfered with several planned activities, but fortunately we were still able to get to the lake for the annual cookie swap with my MIL and SIL. Here's a sampling of what's going to work with me tomorrow: