More Snow...

Today it was back at the Box Office after being off for a Christmas break. Inside business was very slow and outside it was snowing furiously. A decision was made to close down the Box Office and Admin Offices due to a Winter Storm Warning. Apparantly many other offices closed at the same time, as it appeared that the entire downtown workforce was trying to leave at the same time. After waiting for my bus for almost an hour (!) with hundreds of other shivering people the #74 arrived. Luckily, I was one of the first on and happy to grab a seat by the window. We started our "crawl" to the Mirabeau Park and Ride, normally a 15 minute drive on the freeway which last 45 minutes after passing a semi-truck stuck in a berm blocking traffic, and seeing a few cars who had slid off the road into snowbanks. I came to reflect on how all this snow has affected our lives here since December 17th. Certainly, travel has been slow and difficult. Air flights have been cancelled or delayed, garbage pickup last week did not occur, one concert in The Fox was rescheduled, snow accumulation on rooftops has resulted in some collapses, (the Davenport Hotel skylight fell into the lobby today!), heavy snowfall bent our mugo pine branches into the street and had to be removed so the branches could resume their skyward stance. How do birds find food? My concern led me to ask Gayle to dig a path to the bird feeder and I filled it. Within a short time, one skinny finch was having a feast. So here I am so happy to be home, dry and warm. So what am I going to do? Sew. :)