"Snow Gives Cold A Purpose"

[orleans]

said a young woman to a cltv reporter around chicago today

i thought it was deeply profound

and extremely apropos considering...

[marzipanni]

1. Snow, close up.

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/

[orleans]

2. ooh....

thanks for the link!

[Adsos Letter]

4. very nice...

amazing what beautiful complexity exists outside our normal vision... :thumbsup:

[Radio_Lady]

6. Beautiful snowflakes... and I have an icepack on my right cheek...

for a toothache. How appropriate!

I'm all for utilitarian cold tonight.

Excellent quote about snowflakes from Henry David Thoreau:

"How full of the creative genius is the air in which these are generated!
I should hardly admire more if real stars fell
and lodged on my coat."
--Henry David Thoreau, 1856

[CL Avenger]

3. But who created snow

Let's give credit where credit is due.

[orleans]

5. THE SNOW FAIRIES!

HOORAY!

[CL Avenger]

7. Cute

Goodnight

[Radio_Lady]

8. Ummm... is one or both of those lovely ladies available to...

shovel a few driveways in the Washington state and Oregon passes ASAP?

We supply the shovels, coffee, donuts and appropriate clothing. They get to appear on next year's ODOT (Oregon Department of Transportation) annual holiday card.

Thanks for delivering that message to them and their little wolves, too!

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After living in Florida for 28 years, I finally escaped to the Northeast. I married a man born in a Boston suburb who had lived in Boston, gone to college at Northeastern University, worked in Foxboro, MA, then took a first job in Rochester, NY. Later, he moved to New Jersey. His escape was to get jobs which required travel to sunny places such as San Francisco, Albuquerque, and Houston. He dressed like a cowboy but talked like he was from no more than a few miles from the Atlantic Ocean.

My first winter living with him in one of the colonial towns in Massachusetts, we had a glorious early snowstorm in mid-December. I scampered out in the powdery stuff with my nine-year-old stepdaughter and ran around, then fell down to make snow angels.

"Oh, how pretty!" I blurted ecstatically to my new husband.

"GO SHOVEL THE PRETTY!" he growled.

Living in Portland, Oregon is a compromise. It's never cold enough for me here; never hot enough for him. We are thermically incompatible, but we've been married 35 years come Monday, February 4th. How did we find each other?

[orleans]

9. happy anniversary! i hope you still enjoy the snow

go for walks, look for animal tracks, listen as it silences everything, watch it when the wind picks it up and swirls it, notice the designs it creates on your fence, trees, and patio chairs

(i hope he still isn't growling! and i've sent the fairies your way now)

[Radio_Lady]

10. We had some this morning in the hills around Portland. Temp sat at 31 degrees during the morning,

then turned slushy and it's gone tonight.

But the Cascade Mountains are REALLY SNOWY!

[EstimatedProphet]

12. Thank you! I'm glad you appreciate it!

I worked hard on snow.

[Mendocino]

11. Snow is a blanket ...

...under which the land sleeps.

[orleans]

13. i love it, thats so pretty! n/t