Flexing

Have I mentioned that I love the FlexBrew coffee maker Mom gave me for Christmas?  :-)

 Coffee in moments, not endless minutes. That's especially important at 4 AM!

An afternoon chai latté. (Possibly with a small piece of carrot cake to accompany it.)

Heaven.

How does it get better than this?  :-)

Anyway, we're freezing our butts, furry or otherwise today. Windchill is minus 14C. Okay, it was plus 16 or so on Christmas Eve. That's a huge drop in only a couple of days. We're also bracing for our first taste of winter, with snow here slated to be in the 15 - 20 cms range overnight and into tomorrow. I ran errands this morning, including watering my plants at the office, in case I end up hunkered down at home for the next couple of days. 

I had thought to go somewhere this morning to take a few pics with the little Nikon, but it was just too cold. All I wanted to do was go from bus to store to coffee shop (okay, it was McDonald's for a latté) and then get the heck home.

I have a few moon pics, though.

Below, the moon early on Christmas Day. Ignore the wrong date on the pic properties--I snapped this with the Fuji, because it takes great hand-held moon pics for a point & shoot, but I'd had the batteries out since the summer and never thought to reset the date and time.

Then the moon on Boxing Day morning, as I was heading to catch a bus. You can just barely see her above the roof top. Snapped with the Nikon.

Then the waning moon this morning, as I was walking to the Centre to catch a bus. (Why do I feel I need exercise on the bitterly cold days?) Also with the Nikon, which at 20 x zoom is not nearly as good as the 30x Fuji.

Take care, everyone. If you're in the storm's path, hunker down tomorrow and stay off the roads, stay safe.

Peace.