Whimsical Winterfest

"I think we're not in Miami, anymore."

Adrift on an ice floe in Bedford, Texas, Felicia Flamingo, hopes she finds dry land before Super Bowl XLV begins.

Aaah, I've claimed a deck chair. Now where's the cabana boy service?

I'm doing my best to help. Push harder

Brushing snow and chipping ice works up a thirst.

What do you think, folks? A kid's picturebook? Everyone loves flamingos, but how about that snow plotline twist?

Super Snow Bowl

It could be rain, It could be snow, Weathermen never know - Willard Scott/NBC Today Show 11/27/95

The weathermen actually did get it right this week in Dallas-Ft.Worth. Ice on Tuesday, temperatures in the teens Wednesday and Thursday, then snow up to three inches or more accumulation on Friday. Bingo! All plows all the time on any Road to the Super Bowl - Cowboy Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Our visitors from Pittsburgh and Green Bay must regret packing shorts, sunscreen, and a swimsuit. Hopefully, they brought an ice scraper for their car rental.

Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise - Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, December 1735.

Nature is always serious - does not jest with us Ralph Waldo Emerson 1883

Nature, as we know her, is no saint - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1844

Day Four. Cabin Fever. To heck with writing poems about the ice, snow, lovely flakes falling so delicately - Joanne Faries