Winter's Revenge on the First Day of Spring

The calendar says that it's the first day of Spring, but we woke up to snow on the ground (see pics below)! It snowed and sleeted all day with a high of 32F after the sun wasout with a high of 67F the day before!


I took several pics of different things all day, but my "pic of the day" is of the luminary in memory of my dad at the local Relay for Life event at MU's Rec Center today. Paul and I went because the professional fraternity that I advise had a Relay for Life team and we wanted to see them start the relay, and then I bought a luminary and we went back at 9:45 p.m. for the luminaria ceremony. As you can see in the picture they had bags with names of either "in honor" or "in memory" of individuals effected by cancer lining the track where the participants walked for 12 hours as part of the fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. It was a touching scene to see all the lights dimmed and the bags luminating, and they displayed a PowerPoint with all the names of the individuals who were on the luminaries. The local news said that over 1500 students and community members participated in this year's Relay for Life. Below is a crowd shot of some of the students present in the gym during the luminary ceremony.

There were many fundraising events going on, but one event that the department I work for organized was, "Decorate a Bra", these bras were decorated by various students or student organizations and then auctioned via a silent auction tonight. Below is a pic of one of them with a "Turning 21" theme.

Below is the what we woke up to this morning, notice the spring tree buds in the snow and the green grass peeking through :