Snow days

What a surprise: snow featured prominently in our activities this weekend, which seemed to center on the Chadds Ford area.
1. Have you noticed the potholes in the Route 52 bridge at Lenape? Not that potholes are really newsworthy at this time of the year, but these are numerous and deep.
2. On Saturday afternoon kids were taking advantage of the massive sledding hill on the east side of Pocopson Elementary School. That hill is so long, they could really use a tow rope to haul them back up.
3. We picked up yet another 25-lb bag of Purina Bird Luvver's Blend at the Brandywine Ace Hardware store, and we were far from the only customers stocking up. I love the whimsical birdseed names, like "Finch Feast," "Cardinal's Cuisine" and "Woodpecker's Wish." By the way, the birdseed bag illustration features a Rufous-Sided Towhee, and I saw two of them on Friday at a West Grove feeder.
4. On Sunday we stopped off at the River Museum -- they just changed their official name to the Brandywine River Museum of Art, did you notice? -- and couldn't help but notice the many snow paintings on display. In one, some hardy souls were shoveling their way out of a snowed-in mountain road. Reminded me of some Unionville friends with an extremely steep driveway. The calendar art exhibition is worth a visit, not only to see the Wyeth, Pyle, Parrish and Rockwell paintings that were used as illustrations, but also the actual calendars themselves. I was fascinated to see that people used to mark the birthdays of Thomas Edison, FDR, Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee. Outside the museum, the Brandywine looked especially beautiful and serene, flowing between its two snow-defined banks.