You are such an Ice Queen

I was talking with a friend yesterday, after we unstuck her car from the snow, and she said "I love snow when it is pretty and only in the backyard of my suburb home."  Now, I can get behind the conditional love for snow.  Love it for two-hour delays, cancelled classes, snowball fights, and the white sheen it puts on the city for the first day it falls.  But sometimes, like now, when you've been walking on ice for the past week with no ice-free future in sight, it blows.

However, yesterday I saw two sights that made me happy.  As I was slipping and sliding to my landlord's front door, the bf spotted this lovely piece of artwork in his front yard.

It's a face with a little fort/castle pathway in the back.  Cute.  But I almost died trying to get a picture.  It looks better in person (but at least my Blackberry has a flash).  Poor dude's gonna die once the snow melts.  If that ever happens.

Okay, while the dude is cute, the next one is shady.  It was right next to an empty rape van.  At least I found it in the daylight....

"Urban-chic" photo.  Read: hipster.
I hope whoever dropped that is okay.  When I see kids items, like shoes, just chilling on the ground, I always worry for the little gals and girls of West Philly.  Because it's West Philly and its not kid friendly.

On another note, today I've been listening to The Tallest Man on Earth.  If you like relaxing folk-type music, you will love this dude.  Their album Shallow Grave has been on repeat all day, it is fantastic.  (Liz, blog about this soon...your opinion is better than mine!  Album is on dropbox.)

I'm off to the gym to run 2 whole miles and keep up with my goal of losing 30 lbs. by the end of May.  10 lbs down, 20 more to go!!