Image courtesy of Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz
So last night, while watching the snow, I felt like I was living in a snow-globe. It's just like God/Allah/Creator Spirit is shaking everything up then putting us back on the dresser and watching the snow fall. The long range forecast has this kind of weather, or at lest the temperatures, being here for a month. This means I am in with a very real chance of getting my eternal birthday wish of enough snow to build a snowman granted.
However many others do not share my glee at the snow. In fact, most don't. There are complaints of the cold, how hard it is to drive anywhere, how days off work only make it harder to get through it all. Man when did everyone grow up? Children have the best idea. They just want to play in it. They know that school work will have to be caught up on but they are able to forget about it and live in the moment. My exclamations of "please can I just have 10 days more snow" and the small squeal I let out when it started snowing again today are met with derision almost. Now I am a responsible adult. I would not call in and say I couldn't get to work when I could just to go and play in the snow. However I do wish to be snowed in, to not be able to make it to work. Now this could in part be due to my job not being the fulfilling thing that the farm will be. But mostly it is down to my love of snow.
Snow makes everything pretty. Even the most run down areas look lovely in snow. When I was really small we used to get snow most winters. This has changed as I've gotten older and now it seems we never get it, or it waits until Easter! The last couple of years we have had snowman snow. This winter is the coldest one in 30 years I heard on the radio today. But instead of appreciating this season we moan about it. London and the South get brought to a standstill at the slightest covering of snow. The North of England (I'm in Yorkshire) and Scotland have had much more but have just carried on. Sure many schools have been closed and roads have been hell. But we've just tried to carry on as normal. Whilst moaning of course.
I just don't understand how people can make the complaints the first thing they do. I mean, I understand that very few people over the age of 10 feel about snow the same way I do, but come on. Lighten up a bit folks.
Ok, rant over :o)
Well, I'm in Michigan, in the U.S., and we get quite a bit of snow here. I'm kind of over it, and am looking forward to spring, but I actually like driving in snow and think it's beautiful, too. Your enthusiasm is contagious.
ReplyDeleteAnd just for the record, I think it would be incredible to live in a place where I could take pictures like the one you took - second one up from the bottom. What is that place? It's gorgeous!
I think we may have been seperated at birth...I looovvve snow, maybe because I live in the deep south and it is a luxury down here. It is supposed to start snowing here @ 4AM...and I can't wait. Oh and I agree with everything you said about snow. The beauty of it is just breath taking. Keep posting those pictures--I love them!!
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