This is what we woke up to yesterday. I was supposed to be at work, but 5 inches of snow fell overnight and since I live in the Piedmont of North Carolina, that kind of precipitation shuts us down. It necessitated my calling out for the day and using precious PTO time.I reflected as I stood on my front porch taking this photo around 7:30 a.m. that the white blanket covering all I could see was a metaphor for the fresh start I anticipated later that day. Barack Obama would be sworn in as our new President and I was jubilant. This snow afforded me the opportunity to watch the inauguration as it happened rather than recording it as I had planned to do.
A fresh start, a new beginning. Hope for our country and a prayer for the future. A clean slate upon which to write new commitments and plans for service. A new resolve to do what we can; to do what we must. Build a new foundation to support our leader in effecting needed change.
I stood on my porch in the extreme quiet that morning, thankful for the time it allowed me to reflect on all this day promised and all this new leadership expected from us as a nation. And though I had not planned on being home this day, I was thankful that by being snowed in, I was given the opportunity to watch as a new era in our nation was ushered in. For the first time in many years, I was proud to be American and hopeful for our future.
Thank you President Obama. Thank you Michelle Obama for the sacrafice of sharing your husband with our country. God bless and hold you and your family close as you serve us and lead us into the future that is now bright with possibility.
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Thankx for your lovely comments.I must say that I did not have the chance to bake your cherry bread either!! With the holiday I had to cook lots of other stuff.But the recepi in not out of my mind and I sure will let you know once I have made it.
What you are showing we had up to last mondey. -15 degrees C we had at night and the snow stayed on the ground for a whole week.That is a rearity here in Belgium.
Now it is very bad outside with lots of wind and a lot of rain.
Let me congratulate you with your new president.I hope he we be every thing everybody expect of him.He has not an easy task ahead of him with people expecting so much.I watched the inauguration on tv. Wouldn't miss this very special moment!I just had the time to finish my patchwork course.Dinner was already made and so I took out 2 hours the watch the whole ceremony.Very impressing I must admid.Escepially the masses of people that came to witness it!!God bless the man and his whole family.
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