The World is White With Snow

[liralen]

Everything is covered with fluffy, soft, white, slidy snow, nearly five inches of it. I'm very glad that I'm not having to go into work in this with all the other people on the road. It's sunny out, too, so it's likely to all melt away quickly, but the trees looked like the velvet covered horns of a young spring buck, furred in pure white.

It's kind of magical, turning the world strange overnight.

Last night, as we were coming out of the community rec center, it was raining, because it was so warm out, and the moment I got out into it, I took a deep breath and sighed happily, "Mmmm... the scent of rain." It made Joan laugh, who was, in Seattle, kind of tired of the rain happening All The Time, and she was much happier here. Still, even she agreed that there is such a lack of rain here as to make any time it did rain a real treat. Yum.

Comments

Oooh!

[silkblade.livejournal.com]

I miss snow.

Re: Oooh!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Where do you live and where did you live that you had snow?

I think that the only reason we were finally able to decide to move to Colorado from Washington was because it snowed during the brief, four day visit we had in order to decide. It was magical because it was only a few days before Christmas and Boulder was all lit up with Christmas lights, and fat, white flakes were drifting through the night sky...

I think I like the snow out here because it falls, lasts for only a few days, or a week, at most and then either sublimates or melts away and it doesn't bother people for that long after it's had it's perfect white day.

Re: Oooh!

[silkblade.livejournal.com]

I lived in Minnesota for 7 years and I moved to the Bay Area last year.

This is Janis/Alice from the Bay Room on TooMush.

Re: Oooh!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Ah! Okay. Wow... that is quite the change. I did miss seasons when I was in California, too, and I moved there from Indiana, which isn't quite as different as Minnesota. But, yeah, I could certainly understand missing snow.