Pictures of storm damage, gift art, okami lament. Randomness.

[merimask]

First of all, the lovely and talented pzb  sent me a much appreciated birthday gift; this lovely print.  She's an amazing artist and I LOVE this piece.  I'm getting it framed tomorrow.  *big smooch*  Hon, you don't know how much this cheered me up.  :-)  AND it's the perfect house warming gift!

Second of all, I finished Okami last night and I am bereft.  BEREFT. 

S'funny how that game got right under my skin.  I found myself wandering all over the place, unwilling to fight the final battle because I wasn't ready for it to end.   Finally had to pull the plug though and the ending was..well...I won't spoil it for anyone else out there who's playing this game but I will say these things:  
"Wahh!" 
"AHA!!  I knew it!"  
*sniffle*  
*sigh* 
"Purty." 
And also "Crap.  Now I have to play it again."  That is all.

Third of all, I made masks and they are pretty cool.  I did two versions of the fox demon from Okami, a new GreenMan, and a custom colored wolf.  Sometimes people request really ugly customizations of masks (and I have to talk them out of it 'cause I don't do ugly!), but this turned out so pretty I might just do it again.  Pictures will be taken tomorrow.

Fourth; pictures of the aftermath of last Thursday's snow storm.

Our driveway.  I took all these pictures on Saturday by the way.  All the snow melted by then because it WAS a freak storm...you can see how green the trees were.  That's a live line (dead by the time this pic was taken) right in our driveway.

There's the back yard.  That's our bedroom window there.  See how the tree branches fell RIGHT IN FRONT of it?  No wonder I didn't sleep at all during the storm.

There's our neighbor's garage.  Fortunately all the big branches from our tree missed it, but they sure did pile up.

This is the branch that brought down the lines I think.  It made a huge sound.  I think it glanced off our garage roof but there doesn't seem to be much damage.  I guess we got pretty lucky, really.

I loved this old tree.  It's on Delaware Road near the high school, not far from Mom's street.  It's so badly damaged that they took the rest of it down today *sniffle*.  The trunk was split down the middle.  

This was a 150 year-old tree in Kenmore, not far from my house.  Most of it is on the ground.  That debris is more than fifteen feet high.  This tree came down today too.  Our neighborhood will never look the same...not for generations.

This is the street that Char's school is on.  Those aren't shrubs near the sidewalks...those are everyone's trees in pieces all over their lawns and walkways.  It's pretty typical damage...every street around here for miles looks like this.  This is why the kids aren't going to school at all this week.  There might be classes on Monday, but they won't open up the school until the sidewalks and roads are clear.

More of the damage near Char's school.  She walks right down this street every day, usually, and I can hardly recognize it.  

Here's a HUGE tree down in a yard on Grand Island.  Most of the damage was restricted to broad-leaf hardwood trees but a few pines that were already leaning came down.  This one just barely missed the house.

I could have taken more pics but I was trying to respect the home owners by not actually snapping pictures of their caved-in porches and roofs.  Trust me when I say that these are utterly typical pictures.  Everyone who lives in this county has damaged trees just like this or worse...it's a mess here.

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[merimask.livejournal.com]

*pout* I know. So sad about the trees. It's like Fall has been totally ruined around here.