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I have to say the more civilized temperatures we are enjoying today are a welcome relief. Though I was informed recently by a friend that we usually get more snow in March than we do in December.
Back again to comment twice! It’s gone very warm here in Alexandria, Va. More than balmy, genial strong warmth with light continual winds. Just a beautiful late winter’s afternoon. Soon we’ll see little crocuses pop out. Some years it snows later in February and then you see the flowers in the snow.
A truly beautiful photo, RJ. I like pictures of snow, too, especially now that I don’t actually have to shovel the stuff off the sidewalks and driveway… But your photo reminded me of how much I used to enjoy sitting inside, in front of a fire, watching the snow fall. After three years in the south (following so many years in the upper midwest), it is still disconcerting to have 70 degree temperatures in February, as we had today here in South Carolina. And Nom de Plume: your comment about ‘Pleasantville’ was spot-on–the color of the kiosk against the gray/white snowy background reminded me of something, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. Thanks for the reference.
Quite the postcard. I have always maintained that snow in NYC belongs in parks and dusted on buildings constructed pre WWII, which have detail to hold the snow in lovely drifts of white trim. Everywhere else in the City, snow is grey, yellow and black; hardly appealing or picturesque.
It is very lovely. I enjoy pictures of snow. Also being out in snow, at least for a little while.
We were wretchedly frozen earlier this week too (no snow though) but today’s it’s warming up and we shall walk.
Ellen
I have to say the more civilized temperatures we are enjoying today are a welcome relief. Though I was informed recently by a friend that we usually get more snow in March than we do in December.
The splash of color tucked into the monotones reminds me of Pleasantville, the movie.
Wow. Stunning. Like Ellen, I, too, enjoy pictures of snow. Unlike Ellen, however, it’s probably because I have never experienced it.
Back again to comment twice! It’s gone very warm here in Alexandria, Va. More than balmy, genial strong warmth with light continual winds. Just a beautiful late winter’s afternoon. Soon we’ll see little crocuses pop out. Some years it snows later in February and then you see the flowers in the snow.
Ellen
A truly beautiful photo, RJ. I like pictures of snow, too, especially now that I don’t actually have to shovel the stuff off the sidewalks and driveway… But your photo reminded me of how much I used to enjoy sitting inside, in front of a fire, watching the snow fall. After three years in the south (following so many years in the upper midwest), it is still disconcerting to have 70 degree temperatures in February, as we had today here in South Carolina. And Nom de Plume: your comment about ‘Pleasantville’ was spot-on–the color of the kiosk against the gray/white snowy background reminded me of something, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. Thanks for the reference.
Quite the postcard. I have always maintained that snow in NYC belongs in parks and dusted on buildings constructed pre WWII, which have detail to hold the snow in lovely drifts of white trim. Everywhere else in the City, snow is grey, yellow and black; hardly appealing or picturesque.