Snow patterns

Here around Boston, it’s perfectly normal for it not to go above freezing for a week in January. It’s not fun to go out, but it’s still pretty normal. When I venture out to feed the birds, it’s also pretty normal for me to linger, looking at the patterns in the snow.

Snope

The world is covered with soft white domes and framed with plowed-up edges on the streets. But am I enjoying the interesting shapes they form? Snope. I just want to go back inside and toast my feet.

Juncos hit the slopes

This latest storm lift drift and slopes all around the feeder. I half expected to see the birds skiing, but they’re traditionalists. If hopping about was good enough for the grand-birds, it’s good enough for them. And there’s at least four juncos are in the crowd. Fat ones too.

White solstice

The junco has landed. The storm has ended. The shovelling mittens have been deployed. The back is clear. The steps are clear. The driveway is clear. The sidewalk is clear. Phew! The shoveling mittens are drying.

Yep. It snowed.

So here’s the first snow that stuck. I’m so glad it’s only a thin layer, because it’s wet. Snow on the bushes. Snow on the barbeques. Snow on the patio. And that trail says, Snow on the cat’s feet.

Snow?

Snow? Snow? I don’t remember moving to New Hampshire. It’s coming down in big fat thick flakes. Which my camera isn’t quite capturing. Rats. Maybe in December we can get snow like this, but it’s only October. This madness must stop!

Not Seasonal Affected Denial

Pay no attention to the snow behind the curtain. Just draw the shade. Besides, that isn’t snow, it’s too wet. It’s, um, early spring precipitation. Very early spring. And if you’ll believe that one, I know of a nice bridge from Lower Manhattan. Looks beautiful when it’s all lit up at night.

Tracks

I thought I would try an experiment. While I didn’t care for what I wrote in the flash fiction workshop at Boskone, I did feel inspired enough to try again. So here’s a picture I took this morning, after letting it sit in the back of my mind, here’s what came out when I started […]

The ice vanishes, the snow drops

We were so close to getting rid of the ice. It was even forming cool shapes, like shelves on the front steps. The first snowdrop is lifting a white flower from the brown earth. But no. Now it’s all covered with a thin, thin layer of slick, white goop. Overnight it’s going to rain and […]

More green emerges

It’s getting warmer and it’s showing more greenery out there, but it’s looking a little like collards are not the sort of plants that consider a foot of snow good protection against winter. I haven’t seen them since I managed to cut a potful of leaves for greens on New Year’s Day. Now, I wonder […]