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Everything Under Snow
"paghat" wrote in message news The snow is soft & thick over everything this morning, the garden is lovely. No one's apt to come plow our steep hill, so I guess I'm snowed in. Interesting when it snows & hardly any of it sticks to the Alaska Cedar which has evolved slipper droopy fans of needles that keep the weight off its limbs in the very snowy places it grows wild. As I'm still recovering from the flu I don't get to play in it. Would like to walk to Iris's cafe but it'd kill me just now. Weather report suggests it will get warmer & rain this afternoon, so it won't be so perfectly snowy long. I only hope it doesn't melt then freeze solid, as that could damage some bulbs that had sprouted early, though the snow itself shouldn't harm anything at all. A mere six or eight inches snow shuts down the town, which is pretty funny, cuz when I was in Madison two feet & a blizzard shut down nothing in town. -paghat the ratgirl But it's a bit more hilly here than it is Madison, don't you think? And I swear the snow is a different texture here than it is in the midwest or back east - finer and more slippery. And, because snow is a much rarer commodity here than it is those areas, there tends to be less of an infrastructure around to deal with it - snowplows and sand trucks, etc. Although the DOT (just up the street from me) is beginning to wisen up. As far as I'm concerned, shutting down everything and taking a snow day sounds like a pretty darn good idea. The lack of traffic on my normally busy street is delightful. Wish it would happen more often. The garden looks beautiful with its covering - all the harsh angles are soft and billowy and the coral bark maple is glowing. In the extreme but very dry cold of the last few days, everything just looked kind of bleak and grim and unhappy. A perfect day for making split pea soup with the remains of the New Year's ham. pam - gardengal |
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