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from the front porch

Cincinnati got hit with just the right amount of snow yesterday, and at just the right time – late on a Friday night. Many people left work an hour or two early, but it didn’t really start accumulating until after dark.

The winter storm warning is due to expire at 6 pm Saturday, but as of noon it looks as if all the precipitation has essentially stopped. There is (or was) a snow emergency, I suppose to keep traffic off the road. But I hear a good bit of it at 12:40 Saturday. Still, we’re encouraged to shovel out today, because it’s going to get colder and stay that way.

I’m sorry for my sister Jean in the Blue Ridge mountains. They’re getting a ton of it, just one of many storms this winter that keep her snowed in. She uses a wood stove for heat and has a generator to keep her well pump from freezing. Talk about resilience.

But here: No traffic. No reason to go out (unless we want to – maybe we’ll go bring in some firewood from the pile). By tomorrow, and certainly by Monday, the roads should be OK. Our city of Wyoming does a great job with street cleaning if we need it. Our tax dollars at work.

This is about the only thing that’s good about my not working in radio right now. I’m not thinking “We’d all better get to the station and keep it on the air.” I’m listening to Van Morrison and the Chieftains. Surfing the web. Baking bread. Taking photos. Thinking about, but not yet, shoveling the driveway. Not a bad day.

Here’s a short photo gallery. Technically these are in color, but I really like the almost-monochromatic look.

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