Winter Weather

Yesterday was another of those days when I had to drive the kids to and fro. Robbie and Meghan had friends sleep over and I felt obligated to cook pancakes for breakfast, even though Robbie's friend had left before I awoke. Brandon decided that he didn't want a stranger touching his hair after all and didn't want a hair cut ( he needs one, badly). I let Robbie drive to the store and Meghan felt ill so I let Brandon drive home. Picking Robbie up later I let him drive me home. Throughout all this there was a blowing wind and little pellets of snow falling around us. We don't keep our house overly hot but it was really nice to relax in the warmth yesterday.
While Brandon was driving home, and he has been driving on his permit for a year so he is not so bad at it now, I snapped some pictures of the fields around our house.
We do not live in the country but we are on the outskirts of town and we have a lot of corn and soy bean fields close. I used my mobile phone camera and the pictures came out quite well from the moving car. I had wanted to take these pictures for a while but always when I think of it I am rushing off somewhere and don't have time. In the spring after the farmers have planted it is really awesome to see the straight plowed lines of the fields. stretching on for an eternity it seems. I am still awed by the flatness of the land here in Illinois. Even after 14 years of living here! North Carolina was not so flat where we lived but we were not near the mountains. Where I grew up it is wonderfully hilly, although I am sure I would be car sick going back there now.
Needless to say I didn't get much done at all yesterday in the way of crafts or my ever lengthening to-do list. Besides, I was reading a book that I was anxious to know the end of and couldn't put down except for the direst of need. Today I plan to work a little on the list and see what happens.