is winter over yet?

Ah yes... the Northeast... where snow and ice prevail! We've gotten hammered with snow the past few days, and the driving has been terrible. Today it was snowing so badly I couldn't get to the studio, so stayed indoors and did a bit of sculpting. It was actually a nice change of pace, but I really needed to be at the studio painting. That made it a bitter-sweet type of afternoon... the projects that I can't get to just sitting...

This evening when I took the dogs out I noticed a very long icicle that had formed over the past few hours. It runs from the roof to the light, and then extends down 2 ft or so. Its pretty impressive... I can't help but wonder if its going to keep growing over the course of the evening and reach the front step. Now that would be something!

Greg has been working tonight on digging out our cars and driveway so we can go to our respective studios tomorrow. It wouldn't be such a big deal, except our driveway is at a 35-40 degree angle.. and lined with oak trees.... and one of our cars (a mazda 3) pretty much has no traction in the snow. We pretty much got duped by the dealership when we bought it; we specifically asked how it was in the snow, and the guy straight-up lied to us and told us how great it was. Well.... we bought it in April 06, and for two winters now its given us nothing but frustration, even after getting special low-profile snow tires for it. Thankfully, our other car is a Suburu, which I can't say enough good things about. Nothing shakes that thing... it just carves through snow and ice like it wasn't even there. I will say that the Mazda is a really fun car to drive... just not in the snow!