We received a fresh coating of snow around these parts today.  Beautiful ... for a little while, anyway.  Then came the trip home ... rush hour traffic ... ice ... nerves

It wasn't pretty!  It started to snow about 11 am and all was fine.  Then, about 4 or so, it started to turn into rain.  As the rain hit the freshly fallen 4 - 6 inches of snow, ice under ankle-deep slush!  I left my workplace about 5:45 and walked in my front door at 7:18.  This is usually a 10 minute (at the worst) drive.  Bumper to bumper all the way home on a solid sheet of ice.  To make matters worse, of course, Pittsburgh is not FLAT!  Fortunately, in spite of it being Friday and folks in a hurry to get home, I saw no major accidents!  Thank God!

Now ... about those snow angels ...

~ B