Moments ago, I placed B.W.'s niece Belinda into the extraordinary weather story that has played out across the eastern third of the United States this winter. Many areas, including the South, have experienced near-record rain, snow, and ice conditions. Life for millions of people have been inconvenienced, whether in the form of closed schools, canceled airplane flights, or loss of electricity.
But for children - and kids at heart - winter has been no problem. Some have participated in snowball fights, others have made snowmen, and still others have taken out or made sleds and traveled down icy roads and driveways.
One of them was 9-year-old Sonia Swann of Alabama, in a photograph taken by Sharon Steinmann of AL.com (and which I found here). In this montage, I not only replaced Sonia's face with that of Belinda's, but I added text in the form of a simulated tweet from B.W.'s uncle Noah Jr., who teaches Belinda, Bryson, and 19 others in a one-room schoolhouse. Like just about every school in North Carolina on Wednesday and/or Thursday, the Barefoot Family School was "closed" at the time of this photo. Since the family lives off a dirt road, so this would have happened on top of a frozen pond instead of the driveway actually shown.
(Noah is actually tech company executive Scott Ruttencutter.)
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