Thursday, January 31, 2008

Rock River Ice Jam

The Rock River continues to freeze, break up and refreeze. One of the women I work with lives on the river. The river hasn't gotten high enough to flood her place but she told us about the ice jams. I went down to the river last Sunday and walked from the Library to the dam.How appropriate!
The geese and the ducks are still there. Most are sitting up on the ice jams but a few are still swimming in what little open water there is.
The ice is almost to the bottom of the State St. bridge.
This is a view of the river from the ice house. There is a lot of ice that stretches from the dam back up the river for several miles. It'll be interesting to see what happens when it starts to melt.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

New Years


Brandon and I dressed up to go out to a New Years Eve dinner.

Snow Day

Well, we're finally getting tons of snow Its pretty though
Brandon threw snowballs

Brandon and I played and we built a snowman We even gave our snow man a tail