First snow
Nov. 25th, 2010 11:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustWe have snow. Throughout yesterday there were flurries of cold wetness, solid enough to settle briefly on my attic window, and by early evening a thin layer on the street as well. We went out regardless: a client had promised us a cheque for collection at a poetry reading, which we intended to leave early because ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
desperance had lured us away with promises of beef-stew-in-a-pumpkin. Traffic was heavy and slow, but we got there, first to the centre of town and then through snowier streets to our delicious dinner - and pretty with it, I wished I'd taken my camera (the pumpkin was dark gold and shiny, as if it had been lacquered). And, fortified by the inner glow of baked ginger pudding, made it home again, though the snow continued to fall and to settle.
There's been more snow overnight. The layer on the attic window is just slipping off, and the clouds are clearing, so there are patches of blue sky above me. Is this a good sign? I don't know. The recycling is still on the doorstep, but the large white van that was stuck across the width of the road has managed to extricate itself.
Last winter's snow started in mid-December; we're starting earlier this year.
desperance had lured us away with promises of beef-stew-in-a-pumpkin. Traffic was heavy and slow, but we got there, first to the centre of town and then through snowier streets to our delicious dinner - and pretty with it, I wished I'd taken my camera (the pumpkin was dark gold and shiny, as if it had been lacquered). And, fortified by the inner glow of baked ginger pudding, made it home again, though the snow continued to fall and to settle.There's been more snow overnight. The layer on the attic window is just slipping off, and the clouds are clearing, so there are patches of blue sky above me. Is this a good sign? I don't know. The recycling is still on the doorstep, but the large white van that was stuck across the width of the road has managed to extricate itself.
Last winter's snow started in mid-December; we're starting earlier this year.
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Date: 2010-11-25 12:17 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-11-25 02:08 pm (UTC)One of the 'strangeness' factors of our living there was that for the three winters that we spent in Durham, it only snowed once and that snow didn't last for very long. There was frost and ice, of course, at times. But there never seemed to be proper winter weather that matched the snowy postcards of the Cathedral that we kept seeing in the touristy shops and the indoor market.
People kept saying that it was much snowier in the North maybe 20 years ago. J and I sadly chalked it all up to global warming. But perhaps there's more of a cyclical nature of the snows? (though I don't expect global warming to have gone away).
I'm now thinking about the hill you live on and my usual envy of your living situation is mitigated somewhat (I'd love love love to have a house like yours on the Avenue).
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Date: 2010-11-25 02:31 pm (UTC)I suspect global warming is going to mean warmer weather overall, but outbreaks of more extreme weather. In which case, we are going to have to get used, not to this, exactly, but to being more adaptable.
And it's snowing again, and yes, what you said about the Avenue. (Though it's very pretty!).
And what's it doing where you are?
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Date: 2010-11-25 04:43 pm (UTC)Today is Thanksgiving; I'm thankful for you guys and am really glad that we have LJ and such to keep each other apprised of Life as We Know It. ;-)
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Date: 2010-11-26 09:51 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-11-26 09:50 am (UTC)Enjoy!
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Date: 2010-11-28 08:32 pm (UTC)