More Crazy Minnesota Weather

It's been an interesting month of March so far - just watching the weather.  We went from cold, to fog, to rain, to no snow, to floods and then back to fog, and now the chance of a major snowstorm in a few days.  I love it, where else could you get such variety.  It officially hit -31 degrees F at my place this winter and by July it might be 100 degrees.  What fun, anyway wanted to share some pictures of what I saw today.

The top picture is the new lake down the road from me, less than a week ago the ground was covered with around 30 inches of snow.  Now it's big ponds.

While I was out snapping a few photos a dark blue cloud came racing in and covered what little sun there was.  This picture doesn't really do it any justice - you could just see it gobbling up the farm places.

By the time I got back to my new lake which has been flooding the road for most of the day (this is a picture of the gravel road if you can't tell) the fog was as white as the inside of a marshmallow.

There is talk about a major snowstorm starting by Friday, but I've heard that all before, for the most part this water should pretty much be gone as it slowly makes it's way to the mighty Minnesota River and as the ground starts to thaw and soak up the water.

As much as this weather has been interesting and fun to watch, I think it's been pretty hard on me this whole spring.  Maybe that's not the entire truth - I think it's more that the weather is mirroring me - the ups and downs, the quick changes.  To most people I probably don't seem all that different, but inside it's all just swirling around.  One minute I'm as peaceful as the big fluffy snowflakes, then a crazy wind blows and gets me all riled up.  The next day, the sun is out as bright and radiant as ever and then the fog comes in and makes my brain feel sluggish.  Part of me has always been this way and I imagine there are many others that would agree.  I've almost always (I can't say never) been able to contain this storm inside and look peaceful on the outside.  Most of the storms fortunately are short lived and blow themselves out quickly.

I do have to say though that in the last 4 years that I've had a lot less days where I have had to act like I wasn't foggy, stormy, cold or hot.  More often than not I am inside and out like those big puffy snowflakes that just look they are having fun falling from the sky.  It just seems like the weather changes happen so suddenly that no weatherman would ever be able to predict them.  That's probably what is bothering more than anything.  I suppose I will just have to learn to enjoy all the changes, just like I enjoy watching the sky change now.