New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve, and here in Wisconsin it looks like a winter wonderland, thanks to an eight-inch snowfall two days ago that stuck to everything. I took the snapshot above of my snow-shovelling next-door neighbor and her two little kids while the snow was still falling, and it has looked more or less the same outside ever since. 25° days and postcard snow is why people who like winter like winter.

Hope you have a nice time tonight, if you go out to party. (Don't drink and drive—we want all our readers to make it to 2008 in the finest fettle.)

And please stop by here for a visit tomorrow, if you get a chance—we'll be publishing T.O.P.'s long list of the Best, Biggest, Most and Baddest of 2007.

Happy New Year!

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Mike

Comments

[John]

Happy new year Mike!

[Dennis Fairclough]

Mike, wow, look at all that snow! For folks like me a million miles away from that kind of
weather, it truly looks amazing. (Thought it was gonna be B&W till the figures kicked in at the bottom). I for one would love it... all those photo ops as well.
You didn't say; are you a snow lover?
Dennis F.

PS. 35-40c during the lead up to Xmas here.

[john robison]

Lovely Mike, I'm green with envy. Here in the western Washington lowlands were lucky to get any snow and when we do it's gone in a few hours. I miss winter! Thanks for sharing.

[brian]

great shot !! Brings back many happy memories of when I was a youngster.

[Ken White]

I remember a few of those scenes from my days in Sun Prairie. It is the -20 degree days in January that make me glad I now live in San Antonio. It was 70 degrees here today.

Have a safe and very happy new year.

[Matthew Allen]

Happy new year Mike! It's been 2008 here for two and a half hours and so far nothing too dramatic seems to have happened...

Matthew

[Chris S.]

Sawadee Pee Mai! That's Happy New Year from Thailand - where we had it 8 hours ago or about 13 hours before you. Unusually quiet around here though.

[Eolake Stobblehouse]

Thanks, Mike, continue in the great style.

[Alexander Vesey]

Happy New Years Mike!

The postings on this site have been the high point of many a day in 2007. Enjoy the snow over the remainder of the holidays.

[brendadada]

Thank you Mike, and also to your occasional co-bloggers, for a fun(ny) magazine, an absorbing techy read and lots of solid journalism. Oh, and the photographs. ;)

Keep on keeping on: we all look forward to much more of the same in 2008.

[Carl Blesch]

Photos like this make me homesick for my native Wisconsin. I moved east 31 years ago, where winter storms are typically "snow-to-sleet-to-rain" or "rain-to-sleet-to-snow" (with wet or frozen slush, respectively, as the remnant on the ground), rarely the fluffy white stuff that made for great snow forts as a kid and fine photography as a high schooler and university student. I still love the shot you made out your front door last year (actually Dec. 2006, I believe), and now I get to enjoy gazing at this one!

[Rob Young]

Thanks for all your posts and info in 2007. I will continue to be a loyal reader in 2008.

In Melbourne, it was 41C at 7.30pm on New Year's eve. That's 106F for those who don't do C.

[Rick Barry]

Mike,
This is what West Michigan looked like on
Dec 26 at the south haven pier. THEN we got
all that Lake Michigan (lake effect) snow on
New Years. (10-20" by some counts).

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22490326/displaymode/1107/s/2/framenumber/2/

Greetings for the new year from Kalamazoo,MI

Rick