04 December 2010

Of Snow and Michigan

I have only seen snow once in my lifetime, and it was in the middle of desert in Jordan on the way to Petra. It was basically a tiny mushy puddle of snow in a ditch in the middle of the highway. The driver of our tour-van (it was a van with just my family inside) stopped suddenly and said we could get down if we wanted to play with snow. We managed to make tiny snowmen and throw a few muddy snowballs around. We even managed to get the driver to join us.

Mini Snowman

Fast forward to the 2010. My boyfriend invited me to visit Michigan for Thanksgiving. Immediately my mind thought snow. And that's exactly what we got. Though there wasn't enough snow to cover the grasses, there was enough to have a bigger snowball fight. It was also so much colder than Jordan.

You can still see a little white where the snow is.


Me, being up close to a cow for the first time in my life.


And being up close to a horse too, for the first time in my life. I realize that I am such a city person that I've never really been exposed to animals all that much.


This is suppose to be a picture of a partially frozen river.


Cadillac, MI



Lake Michigan




I love the little accumulations of snow. 


A very decent snowball.