Some snowy closeups


I hate snowmobiles

I really feel for Arwen. Ever since she was a pup, she's had very sensitive ears, and loud noises of any kind obviously bother her. The bane of her (and by extension, my) existence in winter time is snowmobiles. I don't have any patience for them on any level: they are loud, they stink (the diesel fumes spread and hover in the air long after they're gone) and they seem to attract the same idiot, selfish, prone to drinking-and-driving demographic as the jet skis do in the summer. Their effect on Arwen simply compounds the antipathy. 

When she hears the rip of a snowmobile accelerating, even at a long distance, Arwen panics and skulks over to my feet. She won't even find an interest in her ball. I grabbed this picture of her when we heard the distant approaches of one. You can see by her expression that all is not well.


More ghosts in the snow


Pane in the glass

get it?


Blast from the past

Arwen as a baby