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| Snow fresh. |
It snowed overnight – just enough to give everything a fresh
coat of fluffy whiteness for the morning get up time. It was pretty.
The technological wonder that is remote start warmed the car
up for the ride. A path a shovel width wide was cleared from the back door to
the car. Bunny tracks dotted the snow in a line from the driveway into the back
yard. The snow was easy to brush off the car and in no time and right on time,
I was on my way.
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| Slow going. |
The ride to work had
plenty of time for sightseeing and admiring the lightly coated trees that
seemed to merge into the gray sky. The traffic was horrible. After rounding the
corner from Riverside to Lakeview, it wasn’t very far before it was bumper to
bumper vehicles barely moving. The roads weren't that bad and there was no apparent cause for the traffic situation. Maybe the cloud of stupidity had parked over Lowell and overtaken the minds of the drivers.
Waze was consulted for an escape route, but many
of the streets are dead ends and the options were few. After 16 minutes of
barely moving, Waze showed an estimate of 12 minutes to cover the remaining 1.2
miles. Ugh.
In all, it took 35 minutes to get from home to the garage, a
distance of roughly two miles. This was a new record. Unofficial. There was no
actual stopwatch in effect.
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| Fresh snowfall. |
Because I was already late upon landing downtown there was no
reason to rush during the walking portion of the trip to the office. I looked at
the snowy trees as I took a slower pace on the slippery sidewalks. The snow on the roof at Saint Anne's Episcopal highlighted the shingles and some dips and waves in the roof. The snow on the trees blended in with the gray sky. The greenery in the flower boxes atop the brick wall near the bank was powdered with snow.
It was a
refreshing change from the usual footrace to take a breath, slow down, and look around. The traffic was good for something after all.
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