Home Is Where the Blizzard Is

Marsha, Drew, and I stopped by our Copper Harbor house while up north over the New Year week. The house is all closed up for the winter, of course, but Marsha had a couple of things she needed to pick up. The shot was taken on New Year's Day, when we had one of those Upper Peninsula blizzards that are localized strikes that can occur anywhere in the region. This day, after several days of perfect winter weather, the local blizzard blasted the Keweenaw while the rest of the U.P. had mild weather. (Downstate, we heard later, had gotten socked with 9 inches of snow the night before, New YHear's Eve. We returned home to Okemos two days later to find all 9 inches waiting to be shoveled out of our large driveway.) This picture is of Drew standing near the picture window in the cabin. You can see the blizzard raging on outside. The temp inside was about 25 degrees. No chance of snow melting off your shoulders inside on this day. We have to be careful not to drag too much snow inside on our clothing, for it will all melt in spring.