This is Marty the Monk...the Buddhist statue that resides in my herb garden. He took the place of a pretty much to almost dead bush that I tore out of the ground this past summer.

As you can see by the serenity of his facial features...he enjoys winter much more than I do... because he is not stuck in a house for several days with two boys of very different personalities that are always at each others throats now-a-days......that is enough to acually go outside in 18 degree weather and find something to do....other than shoveling another pathway.

It does however beat a picture of me being thoroughly disgusted with winter.