Winter

Winter is here. Not the most inviting time for a landlord. Shoveling snow, salting steps, paying heating bills and putting up with complaints of tenants being too cold -and a tenant in same building complaining it is too hot- are all hazards of the cold months.
I like the winter. I will have to admit as I get older my body feels the cold much more. And it has been EXTREMELY cold the last month. But I like to shovel. I like the exercise. If I dress with enough layers and not too many that I can't lift my arms, even walking is pleasant.

There are other things that I do besides dealing with tenants and cleaning apts and collecting rent and going to court and paying bills and doing bookwork and answering phones and showing apts and shoveling and mowing and cooking and dealing with my household and kids....yes, in the winter I can not garden but I still have my photography

With winter I am more aware of color because there is very little. Unlike fall. So it is about texture and how the cold changes the surroundings. One day everything looks gray and brown and beige with gorgeous subtle mutes. Than another day the sky is clear and such a brilliant blue and it reflects on the snow making the masses of white flakes look blue themselves.

Most of my tenants think I'm nuts just for walking outside every morning. They have no idea of what they are missing. Here is a short photo video I put together to show just how beautiful Winter can be. A relaxing break from the rentals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKesp-12Wj8