Winter's Last Gasp

Well, we were almost out of the woods.  Just a few days before the official start of Spring, we were hit with a major snow and ice storm.  Although some warmer weather and rain over the last week has gotten rid of most of it, last weekend we mobilized the entire family in a snow removal operation to liberate our cars from the driveway.  It was one of the most difficult snow shoveling exercises I've undertaken -- it was about a 6-8 inch, heavy, frozen mass which covered everything in sight.  Check out the pictures.

NYC Foray

Better late than never . . . I'm finally posting about our trip into New York two weeks ago, while Nonni was in town.  We experienced one of the most spectacular museums I have ever seen:  The American Museum of Natural History.  A little natural history for the State of Nature gang.  Yes, we had to fight traffic.  Sure, we had to fight crowds.  But it was worth it.  It's one of those museums where it's impossible to see everything in one day.  That particularly true if you're Matthew, and have an absolute obsession (previously unknown to me) with "keletons" (skeletons, that is).  It was worth the price of admission just to watch how much fun he had.  Anyway, here are few pictures I snapped along the way.