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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsA cold front came through yesterday
Temps started falling to the low 50's (yea, I know. Deep South Texas. What can I tell you).
The breeze started coming from the northeast, bringing with it aromas from far, far away.
A little bit of smokiness, a little bit of mold, humidity, salt air...
Then traces of pine needles, rosemary, and other aromas that were more felt than detected.
Winter is coming to the lower Rio Grande Valley.
The skies are gray, surly, and spitting rain.
More sullen than vengeful.
A hazy shade of Winter.
gay texan
(2,442 posts)most of it is gone
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Share your full experience.
All senses.
gay texan
(2,442 posts)so i will do my best to answer it
Silence, it was truly quiet, no movement out of the Permian basin oil stuff that morning. the wind and the snow was your companion. As for smell, it was fresh bitter cold air, but not the type you hate, conversely the type you welcome.Clean, near aphrodisiac for the moment un touched.....
for the moment, you felt that all things were equal and for once squabbles didn't matter anymore.
since im really not the best at creating imagery with words, i shall let Henry Mancini fill in the gaps:
Mancini describes it better that anything i could ever type here. I felt young again.....
LeftInTX
(25,305 posts)It would pile up and gradually melt.
I moved away from there in 1982.
Fast forward to 2012: I'm watching the movie Superfly. Scene shows snow piled up on the streets.
All of sudden outta nowhere, I can smell it melting. It was a smell that I had completely forgotten about.
Now I won't forget the smell of mountain cedar because it is fairly strong, but the smell of piled up snow melting (slush) is very subtle and I almost didn't realize it had a smell until I saw Superfly 30 yrs later.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)gay texan
(2,442 posts)very nice!
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)I had about 6" of it all over my yard and it was pea sized.
I wish I had taken a picture of it, but that was before digital cameras became popular.
sl8
(13,761 posts)Seasons change with the scenery
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)The sounds, the smells, the tastes of the seasons.
We are much too focussed on vision, that we forget to appreciate the entire envelope of reality.
LeftInTX
(25,305 posts)Even though I've got Mountain Cedar in my backyard, I can't smell them unless winds come from the north.
It seems like when the weather is hot, all I can smell is asphalt.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Will be staying on the River Walk.
Looking forward to a nice enveloping experience.
jpak
(41,757 posts)I watched it approach on the Weather Channel radar and went outside when it came through.
A big break from The Torrid coastal TX weather....