Part 1 :: What a drive!!!

Greetings all!
OK! I am SOOO excited about posting this, I can hardly contain myself! I may trip over my words and have all kinds of chaos going on here, but I HAVE to tell you about my drive after work yesterday!! SO AWESOME!! I had a bunch of work stuff to do all day, so I am barely getting to it right now....

OK. So, I leave work and everything around me is ice! As I step outside, the cold bites the tip of my nose, my eyeballs say, "bbrr" and I can feel the stale cold running through my curly head....yikes! It is C-O-L-D!

I get in the car and as I sit there waiting for it to warm up, I look around and see that all the branches on the trees glistening as the sun hits them. It's as if each branch was dipped in ice....SO cool! (pun completely intended!) (o=

I reach back and get my camera.

As I am driving, I take the back country roads because I love the country. I am driving slowly looking at the crystal country all around me when at a distance, I see two Shetlands.(Mini-horses- I LOVE THEM. I WANT THEM.) Not only are there two little horses as cute as can be, but they have two owners attached to them...uh..."walking" them...on LEASHES!!! What the?!?!? Oh my!!
I pull over, step out of my car and say, "I know you all are going to think I am crazy, but can I take a picture?" The woman smiles at me warmly and with her Texas drawl says, "Shur, we down't think yer crAzee". The little girl takes the pink leash attached to the pink bridle and yanks on it to pull the horse around for the perfect pic. We stand there and talk animals for about 20 minutes....SO neat!!! AAHHH...I love the country! I love the people! I love the animals! I love the smell!





....OK, OK, I'll stop...but I DO love it! (She smiles)

After my interaction with them, I get in my car and drive on. As I drive, I got through a tunnel of trees that are crystallized by the cold....it reminds me of the ICE exhibit I saw at the Gaylord Texan. There was a tunnel make of branches that were covered in ice with a blue light behind them. As I snapped back from my memory, I found myself pulling over. I grabbed my camera and started snapping some pictures. I look at them as I attach them to this blog and they just don't do justice to how gorgeous it was out there! But I hope you get the idea.






I stand there for a moment taking in the silence, feeling winter's touch on my any exposed skin. I take a deep breath. I think, "It's a new year. It was a tough last year, but it is a new year." I close my eyes. "It is a new year. This is my new life. I am grateful."