“The bigger the darkness, the easier it is to spot your little light.”
Last night it poured. I could hear snow and icicles sliding off the house to the deck. Even the dog woke up a couple of times, listened, heard nothing else and went back to sleep. Today has been a medley of rain and snow and rain again. My street is a sheet of ice. This morning I went across the street to get my yesterday’s mail and started to slide. I caught myself but the going and coming was so slippery I had to keep stopping to regain my balance. Finally I got to a snow bank and the walking was easy. That I didn’t fall is a miracle and soon enough the pilgrims will arrive to this holy spot.
Today is above freezing but tonight will be in the 20’s, the start of another cold trend. Tomorrow night will be 2˚.
When I was young, I thought of snow as a wonder. I loved to stand outside with my face raised to the sky and my eyes wide opened as I watched the snow fall. The individual shape of each flake reminded me of the doilies on the backs of my grandmother’s chairs. As the snow fell, the lawns and branches would get a light covering, but I could still see the tops of the grasses taller than the snow. The roads looked wet and the snow took longer to cover them.
Newly fallen snow undisturbed by cars or people is beautiful. Tall trees alone stand above the white carpet. Everything else is covered. My favorites are always the fir trees. They have snow but they also have greenery, mostly at the ends of their branches.
The strand of Christmas lights I didn’t take down from a section of my deck rail shine brightly every night. In the storm to end all storms, though they were covered in snow, I could see the different colors shining through. They looked as if they were covered by a white veil. Each night the little heat from those lights melted a bit of the snow and the bulbs’ colors got brighter. There is now no snow left on the rail. Tonight the lights will shine in all their brilliance and push back a bit of the darkness.
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February 22, 2015 at 1:46 pm
in the worst of winter I always blessed those folks that kept their lights on way after the season was ‘over’..i decided to refer to them as ‘holiday lights’..and I would think to myself how much I loved their president day holiday lights….and be grateful for the cheer.
February 22, 2015 at 1:52 pm
greg,
I love my lights, and I look at them when I pass any window looking to the backyard. I also have a palm tree which lights every night and two bottle trees in the yard I keep lit.
I have white window lights all year long too.
February 22, 2015 at 2:06 pm
There were a series of stories about the wise men of an ancient Eastern European town called Chelem. After a new snowfall the wise men met to decide how to have the town crier walk around the town without disturbing the beautiful snow. After much thought they decided to have two men carry him so that he would not leave his foot prints in the snow. 🙂
The temperature is slowly dropping as we await the artic cold front to arrive later tonight and bring the winter blast that will freeze what ever precipitation falls in the morning creating a mess of the morning rush hour. It could be sleet or ice pellets but not snow. 😦
February 22, 2015 at 2:58 pm
Bob,
I chuckled at that last line. Nope, his footprints would never be in the snow.
We don’t have snow in the immediate future, just that blasted frigid temperature. Today is our only heat wave!!
February 22, 2015 at 2:45 pm
It snowed all evening and night here so thge world was once again white. But the sun showed itself and the temperature rose so it melted away during the day and I won’t complain 🙂 Here in sweden we say spring has arrived when the average temperature is above 32F for a week, so today spring arrived here in southern Sweden, I won’t complain about that either 🙂
Trumpet swans, geese and the commoin buzzard is back now and today I found flowering snow drops in y garden, 1,5 months early 🙂 Can’t really complain about that either 🙂 Too bad the weekend is over, it would have been nice to be able to enjoy it some more.
I’m glad You didn’t fall! Even if one doesn’t get hurt there’s the problem of getting up again 🙂 Sometimes it’s just easier to crawl on all four all the way back home again 🙂
Neither my neighbour nor I have removed our lights yet and I think they’ll stay up way in to Mars this year or at least until we have daylight till 8pm, after that I don’t care because I’ll soon go to bed after that.
It’s time for me to go to bed, have a great day!
Christer.
February 22, 2015 at 3:02 pm
Christer,
I wouldn’t complain either if all our days were in the 20’s instead of the 20’s or the teens. You’re snow is like in Colorado where it comes one day and melts over the next two.
Even your garden recognizes this is an odd winter for you. The birds also sense it. We have no spring indicators yet though Caryn saw a throng of robin which were a large enough number to indicate they might be spring robins.
You’re right about getting up. That’s the hardest part and If I had fallen in the road, I’d have had nothing to hold on to so I could get up.
My lights won’t come down ever!
I hope you slept well!!
February 22, 2015 at 5:38 pm
Hi Kat,
Today was like spring. It was beautiful. I drove around with the jeep windows down and the dogs were thrilled with all the new smells. We went to the lake. We couldn’t actually get to the lake because most of it is behind towering mounds of snow but the dogs tried hard to get up and over it all. They were happy to be walking around somewhere other than my street. I was happy to be walking around without my down park that is temperature rated to colder than midnight on Pluto. 🙂 I still had my winter sneakers on, though, and I’m getting mighty tired of them as well.
I stuck a fake flower in the snow mound by my front door.
Freshly fallen snow with the tips of green grass showing through always makes me smile. It’s one of the best color combinations. 🙂
Enjoy the evening.
February 22, 2015 at 11:43 pm
Hi Caryn,
I just got back from my friends’ house where we played a few games, had appies then watched most of the Oscars. I just came home to watch the last few. It was a fun night.
Tonight is far warmer than I expected it to be. I didn’t go out today so I can’t compare. I waited outside when Gracie went into the backyard. It was that warm. The cold will be ba k, but I’ll take tonight.
I hope yours was a good evening!
February 23, 2015 at 12:10 pm
So glad to hear you didn’t fall and are getting out a bit. Spring is on its way, I tell myself everyday. xoxoxo to all the Coffee groupies, thanks for being here most everyday.
February 23, 2015 at 1:44 pm
splendid,
I’m glad when you drop by to visit. I know you’re well!
Spring is a log way off here by the ocean. I don’t care because the water gives us a longer fall.
How are the girls?