colder than ever 2

So as most of you know from the news, the bitter cold isn't done with us yet. My car is still dead to the world, but we are waiting for a mechanic to come up and fix it...when he gets to it! All garages are overflowing with calls of frozen cars, dead batteries, etc...  So I'll just have to be patient...not my strong suit...Chris' either!

Yet, the cold makes for some killer scenery.  Everything here is so beautiful and white. Chris and I went on a picture field trip...

These are the mountains we see from our living room window (at sunrise):

grand som

charmant som et grand som

charmant som

We went to the museum of the grande chartreuse. It is no wonder that Saint Bruno chose this place for the monastary. It's peaceful, beautiful and medecine for the soul:

I love you Hooky...so so much

Ok, these next couple of pictures are pretty cool! they are wing prints from a bird taking off!

Chris laughing at me while i make a snow angel

the old monastary, now a museum

snow falling off the tree

just can't get the romantic teen out of my system

On the way home we stopped a few times for more pictures:

icicles on the wall of the mountain

this isn't flowing water...it's all ice

curtain shaped ice stalactites

We also went in a cave and Chris found the weirdest ice formation I have ever seen! It's like ice growing up off the ground like plants!

bubbles in frozen water

There will be more ice and bubbles pictures soon, we'll have to go back...my camera was out of batteries and I am not yet satisfied...

ttfn people, stay warm!!!

colder than ever

It has been unbelievably cold outside. Chris calls it none degrees...he's almost right. The high for today: 0.4F° and I won't even talk to you about the even colder north wind that is blowing.  Today my car refused to start and I had to call in to work for the first time. Chris managed to move my car to take it out of the wind.  Our cars are diesel, and diesel doesn't like the cold. I think mine just froze (turns into a gel). So we went down the mountain to fill a gas can with more diesel, in hopes it'll unfreeze mine. I took my camera and shot a few pictures, this is what cold looks like!