Winter is coming...

[fajrdrako]

This morning we woke up to snow.

On my way to work, I took two pictures.

The first shows Third Avenue, on my way to the bus stop.

The second shows my apartment building.

The snow has mostly melted now, but I suspect there'll be more tomorrow.

Comments

[littleblueghost.livejournal.com]

Pretty!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Thanks - and yes, it was a beautiful morning. But slippery to walk in!

[littleblueghost.livejournal.com]

I can imagine. Hail and frost is bad enough, snow must be worse!

It looks pretty though, especially on days when you can curl up warm and safe inside?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Oh yes - it would have just that much prettier, if I hadn't had to go to work!

[creativeelf.livejournal.com]

yay snow! We are supposed to get snow tonight :D I hope we get more snow than rain!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I think I am mesmerized by your lovely, lovely icon.

Yes - good luck on the snow/rain ratio. There are advantages to each - but snow is prettier.

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

They're predicting snow for us tomorrow morning.

Can I come live in Ottawa with you? Maybe if I find a job there post-graduate, haha.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

They're predicting snow for us tomorrow morning.

How do you feel about it? Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Or just an inevitable thing?

Can I come live in Ottawa with you?

Yes, of course - that would be fun!

Maybe if I find a job there post-graduate,

Why not? We have libraries.

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

"Why not? We have libraries."

I'm counting on that. :)

Snow... I like the first initial snows, when it melts pretty quickly, or when it happens on a day I don't have to go to work. I dislike it when I have to drive; then it's dangerous.

By February, I'm wanting it to go away. In MI, it's pretty inevitable, as unfortunately is driving.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes; it's in March and April, when the show gets ugly and patchy and is as slippery and annoying as ever, that I come to hate it. This time of year, it's pretty. And enough of a novelty to still be bearable.

I've never much enjoyed winter sports. That gets a lot of people though.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Pretties.

I could go for a few days of snow this winter, but please no more than that [wry g]. I can go to the mountains if I really need a snow fix.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

You can do without the slippery roads and the snow-shovelling and the bad traffic and the cold feet. Trust me on this!

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and the fact that no one in this part of the world has the faintest clue of how to drive in the stuff.

Oh, and the nature of the snow itself. I used to live in Colorado and the Midwest. I know how to drive in snow, and have no problems doing so. In Colorado and the Midwest. Here, due mostly to our topography, "snow events" (they use that term on the news here all the time, and it makes me giggle) almost always run through the progression of rain, freezing rain, snow, freezing rain, rain. Sometimes over the course of a few days, sometimes over the course of a few hours. Either way, what it results in is a layer of snow sandwiched between two thick layers of ice. It's the worst stuff I have ever driven on in 30+ years of driving.

Give me a good Colorado powder or a nice heavy Ohio blizzard anytime. But snow in the Pacific Northwest? Is EVUL.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

All snow was not created equally. Todays colder stuff was much easier to walk in than yesterday's white slush, but obviously the driving was harder today.

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

Yes, we might get up to 20cm tonight and Thursday.

I was riding my bike last night at midnight (had to drop off a video to the library that was due and I'd just finished); I still can't quite get my head around the fact that it's now white outside. I don't like the wet, sticky snow we're likely to be stuck with for the next week or more. Yes, it's pretty, but not underfoot.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, we might get up to 20cm tonight and Thursday.

It was pretty again today, but I had a long wait for the bus and my toes were cold. I started worrying: if I have cold toes already, how cold will they be two months from now?

Yes, this is difficult weather for cycling or walking - or getting around at all.

But: pretty.

[chatona.livejournal.com]

.. I want snow, too. If it has to be winter, I want snow. But that's so not going to happen..

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Why, don't you get snow?

I'd give you half of ours, if I could.

[chatona.livejournal.com]

Cologne lies too low for it to snow much 'round here and whenever it does, the snow just turns into grey puddles after a few hours. It's not pretty.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Grey puddles are the worst part of winter. Well, besides slippery sidewalks.

[chatona.livejournal.com]

... And the constantly grey sky and the darkness and the cold. Winter is evil :D

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Well... winter is cold and dark and grey and inconvenient.

It's also an excuse to curl up with a warm blanket and a good TV show; or book; or cozy up to the computer and play on LJ.

Some Canadians handle winter by complaining a lot. Others go to Florida. Others get into winter sports. I do it by going into denial and turning to escapist literature. Other planets? Other countries? Fine by me!

[chatona.livejournal.com]

Winter is all of those things and I handle it by whining and waiting for the Christmas markets to open so that I can enjoy one of the good things winter has to offer me.