Picture Writing

This photo is from last winter, in Glen Ellyn, my hometown, we had a blizzard that  produced three feet of snow in January! It had started on a monday and snowed all the way into wednesday morning. This picture is important to me because it brings back many memories of the events that took place over the two snow days I had following the blizzard. I recall the snow being so high up that people had trouble even doing trivial things such as retrieving their mail from their mailbox which was only across the driveway! Everywhere you looked it was illuminated with white, as the sun reflected of the snow’s color everywhere, it was quite the sight to see. At one point I looked outside my front window and had to look away for a second because the glare was so bright! I remember hoping that the snow plows around town wouldn’t be able to finish all the streets in time for tomorrow so we would get another snow day, and that is exactly what happened! During all of this, I also recall me driving to my friends house which was, to my dismay twenty minutes away. I was using my Mercury Cougar, and I don’t know if you’ve ever driven without four wheel drive over unplowed roads, but it is not very fun. I was slipping all over the place and my car could not seem to grip the road! At one point during the trip I even got caught in the snow for a second but was able to inch my way out of it, luckily avoiding getting stuck! The snow days were fantastic and I will remember what happened over them for a very long time, as it is not very often that you get three feet of snow over such a short period of time and on top of that get two whole snow days out of it, instead of just one!