Inversion

I am finding it very hard to stop writing on this blog. Not only have I grown attached to it, but I love having an organized place for our memories.  I also thought the blog would only be about the journey across country and finding that perfect place to live.  I thought that was what the "journey" was all about.  I have realized that the journey is not only the one we took while driving from place to place, but also the one we continue from day to day.  

For the first time we experienced something called an inversion, where cold air gets trapped under a warm blanket of air and makes it cold and gray until the inversion disappears.  The only way to escape it is to go above it, like the top of the mountains, where you will get sunny skies.  I personally liked the inversion.  It not only made everything look like a winter wonderland, but on closer examination the inversion formed these fierce, spiky, ice crystals that when touched you would think would pierce your skin, but instead fell delicately into your warm palm melting away in seconds.  

The first sunny day after the inversion where the trees still held onto the beauty of the ice crystals, but now had the brilliant blue skies to contrast their color.

On our morning stroll, all bundled up.  With the sun out, even at a temperature of less than 30 degrees, it is warm enough to want to be outside taking early morning walks.