Outside from fireside.
Snow has bent down the bush by the stone circle.
I hope all of you who are fortunate enough to enjoy this weather are able to make the most of it.
Frozen Georgia
In line with Tex, we are also receiving wintry weather. What a beautiful day! The flakes are thick and soft, as lovely a snowfall as I've ever seen. Nor can I recall snow in December in my home state.
I hope all of you who are fortunate enough to enjoy this weather are able to make the most of it.
I hope all of you who are fortunate enough to enjoy this weather are able to make the most of it.
Gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteNo snow here, although it has been cold and clear. Snow depends on the confluence of cold air from the east (coming down from Canada) and wet weather coming in from the west, and we haven't had that combination....
Grrrrrr. You and Texan get snow and we're high, dry, and having wind-driven wildfires inside the city limits. Seriously not fair. [pouts]
ReplyDeleteLovely pictures, though, both yours and Texan's.
LittleRed1
My S-I-L took 3 hours to drive 30 miles across ATL this afternoon.
ReplyDeleteYou don't have to love Yankees, but give us credit: we don't melt down in a snowstorm.
LR, I thought you were in Texas... Are you in L.A. now?
ReplyDeleteI would so love to see snow here. The last time it snowed and stayed on the ground in L.A. was 1949.
Correction! 1973!
ReplyDeleteI remember sleet on the ground in LA back in um... 62, maybe 61. My teacher told us it had snowed, and wouldn't believe me when I contradicted her.
ReplyDeleteLook! It's white, and it's frozen. I say it's snow, you young whippersnapper.
ReplyDeleteAt 9:30 last night, our 5-year-old downstairs neighbor (accompanied by his father) knocked on our door. When we opened it, our young visitor said, "Look at your car!" We did and our dark green sedan was covered in about a half-inch of snow and more was falling. It was lovely. A very little was left this morning but our spectacular sunshine melted it rapidly except in small shaded areas.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure how long it's been since it snowed here (lower Alabama or, as the locals call it, LA). I have family pictures taken after a fairly substantial snowfall in the mid-1950s, complete with overloaded azalea bushes. Last night's snow wasn't that impressive but it was lovely.
Dad29
ReplyDeleteYou don't have to love Yankees, but give us credit: we don't melt down in a snowstorm.
Good for you. Here in Texas, when the roads ice over, the TV weather people treat it as if the Bomb had dropped. Live reporting from an overpass every hour or even more often, etc. (BTW a classmate of mine lives in the Atlanta area.)
Growing up in New England, I liked snow for the first 2-3 months. By March, I was tired of cold weather. The poet wrote that April the cruelest month. It was for me when it snowed in April.
I always get a chuckle out of the word Yankee. The only place in the world I am not considered a Yankee is back in New England. In New England, Yankee refers to those whose families were living in New England before the Revolutionary War. As my parents were from away- a North South marriage- I am not a Yankee back in New England. Maybe 10% of New Englanders are Yankees, by that definition.
I rather liked the Yankees in my hometown. Unpretentious sorts. But when as a dairy farmer and a college graduate you shovel cow manure, it is hard to stick up your nose about your ancestor being a Revolutionary War hero in the history books. Given all the history book family connections I grew up with, I am reminded about Faulkner's quote about the past not being dead. But being Yankees, none of them talked about the history book connections.
Yankees are those who live north of I-10.
ReplyDeleteYankees are those who live north of I-10.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of I-10, I am reminded of the 20-30 miles of I-10 through the Atchafalaya Swamp in Louisiana. One thing for sure, you can't accuse the people living in the Atchafalaya Swamp , even if they are north of I-10,of being Swamp Yankess.
Douglas, it just seems like it is L.A. (Ask me about "rush minute.") I'm up in the north-central Panhandle, about as far north as Oklahoma City, but at 3,600' above sea level. We'd had sirocco-like winds push most of the moisture out before the cold front that left snow from the Permian Basin south moved through. Our dewpoints were in the teens, which is not exactly conducive to precipitation.
ReplyDeleteWe did have lovely snow virga, though. It evaporated about 4,000' above the ground.
LittleRed1
My friend went to Dahlonega with his wife and two daughters to spend time with his mother, right before the snowstorm hit. He (being a Georgia boy) relates that it was more snow than he had ever seen in his life. 6-8" of accumulation, apparently.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I went to Dahlonega to see it. The city itself wasn't as heavily snowed in as it was here, but the mountains on Georgia Highway 60 north of there were beautiful. The snow up by the Appalachian trail was powdery, not wet like it was here.
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