The Day After, Part 2

Yesterday, in The Day After post, I showed some icy photos that were a result of the storm. As I ended that post, I was leaving the park to go grocery shopping. I didn't get around to showing you these two photos that I took as I was heading out.

This one was probably my favourite photo from that day.

The poor robins were busy scavenging for food. They come back too early, but I know they have nesting on their minds. I like how the unfortunate bird is surrounded by the icy cover and how it is keeping one cold tootsie off the ground.

I did the shopping. Even though it was the day before Good Friday when the stores can get ultra busy, I was there early enough that it went smoothly. It didn't go so smoothly in the parking lot, however, for I exchanged a few unpleasantries with the old coot in the next car.

While I don't always avail myself of handicap parking spaces in smaller lots, I do use them in the big lot at the grocery store. There is no cart corral near the handicap area, but there is a small empty space that is not a parking spot. I use it almost all of the time.

This guy made some flippant remark. I can't even remember exactly what he said, but it was probably about me being too lazy to take my cart to the proper spot. I barked at him, and then I barked again.

The irony was that it his wife that was taking their cart to the corral while he sat there not minding his own business. Ah well.

After dropping the groceries off I headed back to the park. The sun had broken through, and I was wondering what photos I might get. The results were not very good, but this does show just how icy it was.

And this ↓ was the tree under which I had posed for the recent odd red shoot.

There is some genuinely warm weather in the forecast this week. I wonder how much it will diminish the snow pile.

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I just want to add that it is Easter monirng, and it is the first day that I have noticed the sun hit my monitor in the moring. In a lighthearted way, I have marked this as the first day of spring for several years now. Note: I have left morning as I initially typed it – twice.