08 December 2005

What's Wrong W/ This Pic?

When I went out this morning to wait for the bus with the kids, there was an immediate windburn on our faces. The stored up warmth from the Franklin stove in the living room was briskly sapped from our bodies. The temperature was 27 degrees, trees were flailing wildly so that despite the cold air you couldn't "see" your breath because the wind stole it away. White, thick clouds so filled the sky that it appeared as if white was it's normal color, especially due to the early hour and the sky being devoid of any of the sun's influence.
Now, several hours later, not much has changed except that the clouds have perceivable texture though still covering the entire sky.
So, WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
This is sunny and warm, southern Texas where people travel to escape this stuff! Parts of TX even had snow. Meteorologists predict the temps will soar to 32 degrees by afternoon. We're actually worrying about freezing pipes. Strangely, it was in the high 80's on Sunday.
This kind of weather always excites TT. He has this longing to see real snow and the thought that it may actually occur makes him appear the gleeful child anxiously awaiting the moment when he can run outside to the white wonderland and make snowballs, hear the snow crunch under foot and throw yourself down backfirst in the stuff to make an angel imprint. The slightest drop of precipitation in winter, which usually is a cold rain drop or occaisionally an icy slush drop, sends him rushing to the phone to ask others if it's "snowing" at their house too. LC and DQ have never seen snow and TT hasn't seen it since 1985 when a freak snowstorm dropped a couple feet of the icy concoction in our fair city. That was just before my arrival here. I don't believe I've seen it since 1980 on a hike in the mountains of New Mexico in August where the snow was still stubbornly holding onto the peaks from the winter before. Anyway, it IS exciting, I guess. I just tend to get MORE excited when after a long winter I see the first buds of hyacinth pushing up the earth and long bare tree branches emitting small shoots of green, and the daily progression of more and more green appearing on the trees.
Well, I've just released my blog address to TT today. He'll need to read back several posts to find out what TT stands for. I figured at least someone besides Lori will be reading then. But that's OK. I really embarked upon the whole thing just to reflect on things. So, L and TT, forgive my rambling.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Quick, shove TT on a plane to visit. We had about 10 inches of the white stuff today with school closings all around!