Snow is here! -- softening edges, muffling noise, bringing tree skeletons to life: it’s miraculous!
It’s bliss!
Lovely snow! Beautiful snow! Let’s stop and throw a snowball. Make snow angels! Pull down on that evergreen branch and we’ll take a snow shower!
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We emerge from our domiciles with wonder and trepidation. Some make the careful transfer from house to car, car to work, work to car, and home again. Others spend the day sledding and exhilarating. Our world is January’s page -- torn from a calendar. We rustle up big, steaming pots of soup and dig our thick socks out of the drawer.
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Life resumes…..the snow is pushed to the side of the road. We have places to be and time doesn’t really stop. There’s catching up to do but damn, it’s cold outside. Salt on the roads sticks to our cars. Hey there, snow – we give a cursory acknowledgment as we drive past.
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Dirty now and covered with mud from intermittent melting and traffic, the snow holds no joy for us. Life has thrown mud all over our good, beautiful snow. It needs to leave already. Go on, get out of here. It was nice, we enjoyed you, but we don’t want to see you like this. Tarnished. Ugly. Brown. Or worse - yellow.
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For the love of God! Five more inches of the hated stuff last night! I’ve had enough of Snow. I’m ready for Spring.
LOVE THIS!!! Wonderful images --and you captured the progression from new snow to has-been snow perfectly. I totally related to every single word of it. Love the bit about noises being muffled, the skeleton trees coming to life, the "careful transfer from house to car, car to work...." That is SO true. And then the cursory acknowledgment we give snow a day or so later....and then its dinginess when its worn out its welcome. This is excellent. THIS should be published!
ReplyDeletei think u are being very very kind. it is hardly pressworthy. just a little blurb that oozed out of my brain
ReplyDeletebut thank you thank you, by the way!!
ReplyDeleteEarth people! I have analysis in your snow particle. Of excess water mostly small dog waste product. The snow you should not healthy.
ReplyDeletegosh, you guys! so much talent, such a true gift, you, laura, and simone have! i love this, laura. i can see it all in my mind...the change in mood and attitude. i knew what was coming,,and love the way you arrived at that last statement of exasperation. and YES,,it also should be published!!
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ReplyDeleteWhat would we do without your advanced level of science??
hee, hee. I enjoyed this a lot! And I'm glad we haven't had any more snow. But I kind of wish... just the loveliness of it could be here for a day. But only a day at a time!!
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