Let it Snow.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

March 29th 2009 when i woke up this morning and started brushing my teeth ,i heard my hubby shouting.... Ammu .......come fast come and have a look at what happened!!!!!.I was like what,what must have happened so early in the morning....then i came out n he was standing in the balcony next to our living room.

....and i was like WOW!!!!!!! thats so pretty.I was so surprised to see snow all over the trees and from between the branches i could see the lake flowing calmly and two ducks having a nice swim in it....n there was our apt office just near the lake appearing like a small cottage with snow all over it...My idea of a perfect dream home...I was so happy n excited...that i didnt find any words to express it .....but here is how exactly i felt like..... in the word's of Billy Collins


Snow Day by Billy Collins:-

Today we woke up to a revolution of snow,
its white flag waving over everything,
the landscape vanished,
not a single mouse to punctuate the blankness,

and beyond these windows
the government buildings smothered,schools
and libraries buried,
the post office lost under the noiseless drift,
the paths of trains softly blocked,
the world fallen under this falling.

In a while I will put on some boots
and step out like someone walking in water,
and the dog will porpoise through the drifts,
and I will shake a laden branch,
sending a cold shower down on us both.

But for now I am a willing prisoner in this house,
a sympathizer with the anarchic cause of snow.
I will make a pot of tea and listen to the plastic radio
on the counter,as glad as anyone to hear the news .

And now I am listening hard in the grandiose silence of the snow.

Thats how exaclty i felt ....

Seeing the snow i became a bit lazy and enjoyed the calmness for sometime,then got romantic heard some good old hindi kishore kumar songs,with a nice cup of masala tea and masala dosa.I know ur mouth is watering as well...

Its nice that once in a while we get to enjoy such beautiful things of nature....forgetting all our worries,responsibilitys.....etc from the regular hustle and bustle of life.The last time i felt such a peace of mind was for fall when we to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park for fall....n went to some beautiful spots like Cades Cove,Clingmans Dove,The blue ridge parkway....

They were simply superb...I never get tired going to places like that over and over again....which are very scenic be it the beaches like Bora Bora(Tahithi),Santorini(Greece),Maui(Hawaii),Bahamas etc or the mountains like Smokys or Yellow Stone national parks, or The snow clad Alaska n Swizerland......Of course those are my dream holiday spots

So back to what we were discussing ......this sunday i was so excited to see the snow,that we went to the forest preserve nearby....we took our camera as well....I Fell in love with the nature so much ,that my camera started clicking...CLICK!!!...CLICK!!!!....CLICK!!!!.I am not a professional photographer with the SLR cameras......But i felt like one big photographer with just slim n sleek olympus camera.For more clear photos u can follow this link

http://picasaweb.google.co.in/amukta.ch/MarchSnowfallInChicago?authkey=Gv1sRgCJzz5ML0-Lb_dw#

All the photos are in there original colors,except for one or two which were processed......the moment i stepped out it was all black n white......all the trees appeared black n snow was white.....that must be the reason why people say "As White As Snow"

And so u can see some of my good work in all the above photos .We were walking in this forest preserve in the parking lot taking some photos ....n my hubby pointed his finger towards the trees....n there i could see a family of deer ,i think 4 of them 2 big with beautiful antlers n 2 small ones sitting on the white snow staring towards us.....that was a very good sight ....but i couldnt capture it in my camera as they were too far....n they didnt stay there for long..

So that was One beautiful day in chicago suburbs....wihtout the regular complaints from why its so windy n cold in chicago.....We will surely miss it wherever we might be.