Winter 2007 in Michigan

Time to bring everyone up to date. It has been just a few days short of a year since I posted.
Above are pictures of our 12 inch snowfall last year in Michigan.
It was gorgeous but indeed dangerous for all who were inept enough to attempt travel.
These are pictures taken at the farm we rented and lived in for five years.

John Taylor and Alex are shown having the time of their lives playing and wallowing in the snow.
The snow hung on the branches of the trees and made quite the picture for this photographer to take and take them I did.

John Taylor disappeared from the inside of the house within minutes of waking up that morning. Grabbed the shovel and went to work clearing the sidewalks and making a path to the cars and the garage. All with no coaching. It made for a very large smile on this father's face as his mother is always telling me how he never wants or offers to help at her house in Tennessee. I must admit it is something that I have never seen from him. He is always doing or volunteering to help with everything and for that he makes me very proud. I think it is the old thing of either being asked to help or being told to DO IT. I have always asked.

Alex and JT are both wearing the standard wearing apparrel of the north. Carhart Jackets. They were one of their main gifts for Christmas this year replacing very ragged, very much beyond repair jackets they used for three years prior. They are 14 and 8 years old in this picture. Live entirely different lives but remain brothers with a bond that is unbreakable. It seems that they see each other everyday rather than just a few times a year. It is one of the rewards that a father gets when he has been doing the right things and teaching his sons the right way to live. They make me laugh and smile everyday.