Are you tired of hearing about the weather?

Well, we are not quite ready to quit talking about snow yet. 

 It has only gotten worse here in the past week. We feel very fortunate to be warm and well fed in our apartment bloc.

Many people have been stranded in their homes.

There have been many rescue attempts to find people who are under the ice and snow.

A couple of days ago, looking out our apartment window we watched an interesting progression of snow and ice removal. Here is a large crew with their shovels and ice picks ready to tackle the 3 to 4 inches of ice on the sidewalk in front of the church.  



As you can see the group soon dwindled to six men.  There seems to be some kind of discussion going on.  The temperature out there is 5 degrees so I'm not sure why they aren't moving around more.  



Now we are down to two men, but you can see the rows of ice blocks they are making along each side of the path.

But after several hours there is a pathway in front of the Church.

That ice has to go somewhere and so this little red car is now stuck until the thaw.

Then yesterday the snow started again and by this morning that path was gone.

Also, the same 5 cars you can see above in front of the sidewalk clearing crew are now little more than bulges under the snow. 

But Spring will be here soon and we will enjoy the wonderful flower shops that are on almost every corner .