ooh, pretty snow!

[queenbookwench]

Last night when I went to bed (at 2a.m.--because i'd stayed up late reading LJ--heh, new addiction). I looked out of my window to see if there was any snow. And there was! It looked so beautiful in the orange glow of the streetlights in my apartment parking lot. Just a thin layer of perfect white stillness. Well, this morning when I got up, I looked out my window again, and there was even more snow! Last night little blades of grass were still sticking up through the whiteness, but now they are completely covered, and it's still falling hard! After breakfast, I may have to go on a walkabout and ooh and aah and take pictures. It always amazes me how snow can transfigure an ordinary landscape, one that you see everyday, into something mysteriously, transcendently beautiful. I want to write a poem about this, but I'm afraid it will turn hopelessly cliche

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Last night when I went to bed (at 2a.m.--because i'd stayed up late reading LJ--heh, new addiction). I looked out of my window to see if there was any snow. And there was! It looked so beautiful in the orange glow of the streetlights in my apartment parking lot. Just a thin layer of perfect white stillness. Well, this morning when I got up, I looked out my window again, and there was even more snow! Last night little blades of grass were still sticking up through the whiteness, but now they are completely covered, and it's still falling hard! After breakfast, I may have to go on a walkabout and ooh and aah and take pictures. It always amazes me how snow can transfigure an ordinary landscape, one that you see everyday, into something mysteriously, transcendently beautiful. I want to write a poem about this, but I'm afraid it will turn hopelessly cliche <down Inner Critic, down>. I am also from South Carolina, where snow is a once-a-year event, if that, and everything shuts down. So snow hasn't lost its specialness for me. I wish that I had some sort of sled-like thing--even a plastic one from Kmart would be nice--mental note to purchase one sometime when I am not broke :)
If I can't think of anything else, my metal cookiesheet would probably work, if I can get my butt to fit on it. When I lived in SC, we used "borrowed" cafeteria trays. I am going to see if i can get <ljuser="ariadnesthread"> to come play with me, since she (unlike myself) has no fear of driving in the snow. I have projects that I need to work on, but I think snow is an invitation to drop everything and just play, at least for a little while. The U2 song, "It's a beautiful day/Don't let it get away." has become my motto now :)

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[sage-and-sea.livejournal.com]

Garbage can lids also work very well for impromptu sleds - we used them the last time we had a decent snow here in Portland, which was a few years ago.

[queenbookwench.livejournal.com]

i ended up using a metal cookie sheet...it got a little dented, but still worked fine later that day when I cooked my storebought potpie on it :) I discovered there is a fabulous sledding hill at the middle school down the street. I must have gone down 7 0r 8 times before I got too wet to stay out. I kept wiping out at the bottom of the hill because my butt slid off the cookie sheet! :)

[ariadnesthread.livejournal.com]

I don't fear driving in snow, but there comes a point when even I decide to stay home. I ended up lazing around for a while, making muffins, going out and getting the snow off my cars (yes, the old one is still at my apartment), taking a walk around the neighborhood, finishing knitting my aunt's Christmas present, cooking dinner, then starting to assemble my new entertainment center (one I bought, not the one from Mel--I haven't found the connectors, and the one I bought is much nicer).

All in all, a good lazy-ish day. Though sledding would have been even more fun. We still MUST go ice skating soon