What's on your workdesk this snowy Wednesday?

For those of you not here this morning, this is what my front yard looked like at about 9:00 am.


This is what it looked like at 6:30 pm. What? You can't see anything?


This is what happened when I lightened it in Photoshop. It didn't help much, but you might be able to see the wind blowing at about 30 mph and feel the wind chill of -30 F (~-34C).


Here it is at 7:15 pm. With the aid of the porch light, I was able to show the drifts, but not the snow as it continued to fall. And I decided it was too cold to step out on my snow packed porch to take another photo until it warmed a bit.

Is this your first Wednesday visit? Are you wondering about this workdesk nonsense? If so, and you are curious, hop on over to Julia's Stamping Ground. She'll explain the details. Her place is in England, but you will be as welcome as she made me feel these many months ago. And so will the rest of the WOYWW gang, whom I have come to know and love.


The only thing on my table this week is a project I'm working on, and it's a bit difficult to cover up. If you don't like that reasoning, you can always blame it on the weather. So instead of showing a table I'd have to cover, I thought I would show you where I keep my paints. At one time, they were all in order, but as I returned them, sometimes they didn't go back in their correct spots. Why, you ask? Because I was standing on a foot stool in order to take this photo. If the stool is elsewhere, I might put the paint back in an empty spot if I can't reach where it should be. (Click to enlarge).


After awhile, I got tired of not being able to reach anything without dragging a three-step step stool (say that fast three times) upstairs, so I bought one of these handy dandy things to help get the items off the top two shelves. That's why most are standing, not lying flat.


Now I know you came to see the rocking horses. I think almost everyone does. Did you see the little gal (this one is so sweet, she has to be a gal) who lives on the ledge above the paper in the first photo? If not, here she is up close and personal. She is ceramic. I think she came from the baby department, but I love her, regardless. And yes, there are plenty more of my nearly 450 rocking horses to show.

As of 11 pm, we had around 7 inches of snow and it hasn't stopped since it started about this time yesterday. The local weather reporter said on the evening news that it was "just getting started" in the Wichita area. Believe it or not, Wichita was actually mentioned on the national weather scene earlier today, too. Stay warm, stay safe, and stay excited about your art. And let's do a bit of snooping today.