Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Chicago Suburban Snow By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 2 Feb ’11, 7.12am CST PST

Snow forced through screen, also drifting about halfway up window (it’s piling up on the roof over the porch – all drifted). The windward sides of the roof is bare, the leeward side is where the finest snow is piling up like flour from a gigantic sifter. Via: Flickr Title: Snow Sieve By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 2 Feb ’11, 12.52am CST PST

Forsythia at the florist’s shop puts on a brave show Via: Flickr Title: Spring Hopes Eternal By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 1 Feb ’11, 9.01am CST PST

Guns and violence are proven ratings winners in the news and at the movies. As it happens, I saw “True Grit” Saturday while the Tucson shooting news was still developing. It’s a great movie, with lots of guns and violence. I’ve often wondered why we find fictional violence, and real violence, so compelling. Why does a crowd gather at a schoolyard fight? Why do people watch wrestling? And yet, when Rooster Cogburn hollers “Fill yore hand!” it’s a thrill, I can’t deny it. Box Office Mojo: True Grit True Grit claimed the top spot, ending the reign of Little Fockers…

“Though hardly the worst offender in Congress when it comes to gun control, she does believe that restrictions should be placed on gun ownership and right-to-carry–“… Via: Flickr Title: Target: Gabrielle Giffords By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 8 Jan ’11, 3.17pm CST PST

Now listening to report on BBC, Giffords is alive, critical, and in surgery. webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?oe=UTF-8&hl=en&… Via: Flickr Title: Target: Gabrielle Giffords By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 8 Jan ’11, 3.03pm CST PST

webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?oe=UTF-8&hl=en&… Via: Flickr Title: Target ID: Gabrielle Giffords tags #gabriellegiffords By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 8 Jan ’11, 3.00pm CST PST

"Gaby Giffords is also on my personal political hit list…" webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?oe=UTF-8&hl=en&… Via: Flickr Title: Sarah Palin Target ID: Gabrielle Giffords By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 8 Jan ’11, 2.58pm CST PST

Need to rotate this later, sorry. webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?oe=UTF-8&hl=en&… Via: Flickr Title: Target: Gabrielle Giffords page author By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 8 Jan ’11, 2.56pm CST PST