Stephen Yeargin

We woke up this morning to a fair amount of snow and plenty of ice on the roads and sidewalks. It is quite a departure from the unseasonably warm weather that has turned up temperatures to near 70 degrees in the winter months. Ice always adds that extra little challenge to driving, or making sure that a “rolling stop” at an intersection is intentional instead of mandated by the laws of physics.

It is on this topic that I realized that life calls for more pictures in times like this. I can write about what it looked like outside, but it never occurs to me that it might be a memory worth preserving until the snow melts. My cell phone takes higher resolution photos that my first digital camera, so there is little excuse to let things pass by. One may think this is just a way to keep my Flickr updated, but ever since early man decided to paint the world around him humans have set out to preserve visual evidence of a particular time and place. Who am I to deny that basic instinct?