Sunshine on a Rainy Day?

It's been rainy and grey and cold the last few days in Boston, so I thought I'd take a look back at last week, when it was warm and sunny and absolutely glorious!

Table for Two

This is actually from about a week and a half ago, when we went from the 40s to the 70s for one day, then back to the 40s and rainy for the following weekend. We're loving up the warm weather lately. Even if it isn't technically true, I think every winter feels longer and colder than the past. I know that this winter was relatively mild, but it didn't stop me from complaining about it incessantly, and I was ready for spring about three weeks before it actually came.

Eerie

The sky was kind of eerie when I was on my way home last night - it was around twilight, but with lots of grey rain clouds blowing through, and a pink cast from the street lights. It has been very windy lately, so even with the warmer (near 60!) temperatures yesterday, it still felt chilly. Today was cooler (40s) and windy. Maybe someday spring will come. ;)

Hope

I keep passing by flowerbeds like these (this one is on Beacon St), and it gives me a glimmer of hope that the cold weather might actually go away sometimes soon. You can even see a bit of purple blossoms in the top center of the photo (click to enlarge).

On my pessimistic days, I walk by these flowerbeds and think "I bet those flowers DIE because it's so freezing cold out!". Really, it's been in the high 30's/low 40's lately and it's not really that cold, but it's also been wet, which always makes it feel colder than it really is. The wind doesn't help either, and today was a windy one.

One More Memory...

And I promise, this weekend I'll be posting current photos again.

This is from the blizzard we got in January 2005. There was a LOT of snow - 3 feet total. Leyre's husband had to work overnight out of town, so she came over to my apartment to hang out with my roommates and I instead of getting snowed in all alone. The next day, we spent HOURS digging out our cars - four of us shoveling, and about 2-3 hours on each car. There was so much snow that we couldn't pile it any higher and we were carrying it on shovels across the street and into our front yard, which was piled well over Leyre's 6 foot tall head!

This is like where's Waldo, except it's a car that's hiding, not Waldo. So where is it? Click the photo to enlarge and look for the antenna on it's front hood!

No Snow Though Promised...

Forecast for Friday was snow in the morning, it didn't happened.... It rained, then a sunny 50°F afternoon!

This was taken earlier in the week, opposite post on the 14th. Day shot of snow covered trees on the other end of the Red Line in Cambridge.

Another Day, Another Snow Storm

This is the Neponset River and one of the last remaining vacant buildings that was once the Baker Chocolate Factory. I love how the trees looked covered in fresh snow.

Baby, It's Cold Outside!

We went for a walk through the Neponset River Reservation to scope out the pretty snowiness.

Oh the weather outside is frightful

Here's another one from the storm yesterday. This is the tree outside 100 Federal - the Bank of America building.

Snow Freezing Fog

We got our first storm of the winter today - 11.2 inches reported in Dorchester, which is the south end of the city. The snow started around 1:00, and I took this picture around 6:00 and there were at 6-8 inches by then. This is the intersection outside my building - you can see the top of a small hill that cars were struggling up. Some people had given up and abandoned their cars half off the side of the hill.

I walked the .75 miles home from the T instead of taking the bus (traffic was B-A-D bad everywhere, and I made it home faster than the bus anyway!). I saw at least half a dozen abandoned vehicles, and I also got to see the awesomest thing: A woman was sitting in a disabled car in the middle of the road with her hazards on, and a gentleman walked up to her window and knocked on it. When she rolled down the window, he asked if she was okay and made sure that she had a cell phone to make any calls she needed to make. He asked her again if she needed anything, and was still chatting with her as I walked out of earshot.

Oh! And the title for this post? That was the description on Weather Underground for most of the afternoon. Also interesting: we got more snow today that we got all of last winter - and our first snow last winter didn't even come until the end of January!