Freeze frame

A massive deep freeze blanketed the mountains over the weekend and although there were bone-chilling lows and a high number of auto accidents, the beauty of the ice-covered landscape balanced things out a bit.

Luckily I didn't have to travel far to find nature's frosty fine art. Here are a few shots from my backyard (note that I'm not a photographer and have yet to figure out Photoshop!):

Crazy to think that while I was out freezing my fingers and snapping these shots, Bubby was running around in nothing but his diaper -- at his home in the desert, of course, where the temperatures were in the 90s!

Fave photo of the week

Watching the sun set with Daddy.

The Saturday Post (or, The One About H1N1)

My oldest, Brianna, is an odd one: She loves anything and everything related to blood and germs and viruses and such. Luckily she works in a hospital or she'd be considered really weird. But as a phlebotomist, blood is her thing.

So a few years ago for Christmas, I got her some blood cells -- a red blood cell and a white blood cell, to be precise. But they were a million times their actual size and they were stuffed and squishable and cute.

They were Giant Microbes and they looked like this:

    

Cute little buggers, aren't they?

Well, a couple nights ago, Brianna got to wondering if the Giant Microbes company now sells a Swine Flu stuffed toy.

Sure enough, they do! And he (seems like it should be a HE, for some reason) looks like this:

Well, on second thought, it kinda looks more like a SHE.

So if you're at a loss for what to give the loved ones for Christmas, you can always pass along the H1N1 virus in a soft, snuggly way!

And if the H1N1 doesn't catch your fancy, Giant Microbes has lots of other icky, yucky stuff remastered in loveable versions, including black death, ebola, sperm and egg, the common cold, Martian life (don't ask!) and so much more.

Check 'em out for yourself at Giant Microbes. I'm thinking about buying myself a few new braincells there!