No Snow Delay, but Lots of Snow

So here's the short of it,
No snow delay, but a memory making day. 

And here's the long

I was just sure we would have a delayed start or a snow day today, but that didn't happen so I was off really early to my meeting up on Signal Mountain.  Snow was beginning to accumulate on the roads by the time I got up on the mountain, and it was slushy going.  By the time my meeting was over, there was an accumulation of somewhere between 3 and 5 inches.  Parents were flooding into the school, several back and forth phone calls had taken place between the central office and the principal's office, and school had been dismissed. It was a beautiful snow.  I didn't have the foresight to take a picture, but I found a couple of beautiful shots posted on News Channel 9 by a woman in Cleveland using the name ladygrif. 

The den that Mom and Dad built onto the Tuxdeo House has a beautiful, big window that looks out onto the side yard with a tree right outside.  There's a bird feeder hanging in the tree right outside that window.  Dad's big burnt orange recliner was positioned in the den so that he could see right out at that bird feeder when he sat in his chair.  He sat there and wrote (on a yellow legal pad using the lapdesk Mom got for him) or he watched TV.  This time of year, he would be in that chair finishing up his garden plan and checking out his seed order.  He kept a life list of the birds he had seen and he watched the feeder every day adding his new sightings to that list.  There's a downy woodpecker that lives in our neck of the woods and that woodpecker often frequented the tree outside that window.  And of course, Mom and Dad both loved redbirds.  So the pictures tonight by ladygrif from Cleveland reminded me so much of them.  Today when I stopped by there to work on the computer for Mom, the house was quiet and snow was covering the branches of the tree. There were no birds because there's no food in the feeder, and the big recliner was empty.