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09 December 2009

One of my favorite things about snow is... →[More:] So we got our first real sticking-to-the-ground snowfall today.

I'd forgotten how much I love it when I get up in the middle of the night, and look outside, and between the blanket of white snow and the total cloud cover, the light from street lights bounce around all that white everywhere, and it's almost like daylight outside.

Sorry, I think one of my most recent posts is also about snow. But I just love it this time of year. Course when April rolls around and the snow is all grey and sooty and raggedy, not so much. But in December, a fresh snowfall is a lovely thing.

post by: marsha56 at: 02:19 | 31 comments

I miss snow. England is plenty dark and rainy, but we rarely get a good snow here in the south east.

posted by Specklet 09 December | 05:37

Snow depresses me. Luckily I only have to see it for like a day or so every four or five years.

posted by BoringPostcards 09 December | 05:56

Specklet, what part of the south east do you live in?

BP, sorry, you don't like snow but glad you live somewhere that doesn't get very much of it.

posted by marsha56 09 December | 06:50

One of my favorite things about snow is that it almost never happens in Tokyo. Eight years in Boston and eleven in New York City was enough snow for one lifetime.

posted by flapjax at midnite 09 December | 07:26

If I ever get to see snow, I'll let you know.

posted by dg 09 December | 08:14

I miss snow too and I live in a place where it used to snow a lot. We haven't had a decent snow storm in many years.

posted by octothorpe 09 December | 08:31

I hate snow. Expecting up to a foot today.

posted by DarkForest 09 December | 09:09

It's snowing right now, I don't have to go to work and I just started a fire in the woodstove. Yayyy!

posted by theora55 09 December | 09:59

I think I'm about 250 miles Southeast of you, octothorpe, and our winters have gotten much noticably milder in the past ten years. I used to see two or three good snowstorms a year, now the usual number is zero. We had one last year. It's freaky.

posted by rainbaby 09 December | 10:11

I love snow but also live in a place where I rarely have to deal with on a regular basis. I get to go to snow when I want to!

posted by special-k 09 December | 10:12

I love the snow. I like sitting inside and watching it fall, and I like walking in it with the dogs. It's great being outside at night when it's snowing, especially in the trees. It's so quiet and peaceful. Snow is especially nice here since it generally doesn't stick around long after the storm is over.

posted by eekacat 09 December | 10:21

After spending the first 18 years of my life in northern New Hampshire, there aren't too many places that I'm likely to end up that will be able to offer up nearly as much snow. (There are plenty of places that could/do, but I'm not all that likely to live in any of them.) As such, I pretty much embrace snow whole-heartedly every time it arrives, with "when travelling" being the very large exception to the rule. (Chicago is pretty clueless when it comes to dealing with snow properly, pretty much across the board.)

posted by SpiffyRob 09 December | 10:53

Native Mainer here, now in Boston.

I was out in the slop (polite term: "wintry mix") this morning, in my driveway cleaning off the car, dodging ice&snow balls falling from the trees, my arm and hand sore from pushing heavy snow permeated with rain off the car roof, when I stopped for a second and reminded myself that I. LOVE. SNOW. Even the inconvenient kind.

posted by initapplette 09 December | 11:13

Southern Wisconsin checking in. I generally like snow, although I am no good friend of cold (well, below 10F or so). I was enjoying throwing snow with my new snow thrower until I hit a coat hanger (see shouting thread). We've got snow-laden branches everywhere and waist-high snow cliffs at the curb where I cut through. It's sort of visually neat the way it transforms a familiar area.

We've actually had MORE snow and MORE storms the last few years than I remember, although charts show it isn't quite as cold on an annual basis. We tend to get things like mid- or late-December melts (January once recently) where it's shirt-sleeve weather.

posted by dhartung 09 December | 12:31

It was cold all week but today it warmed up thirty degrees into the fifties and raining like crazy with winds up to 50 MPH.

posted by octothorpe 09 December | 12:31

One of my favorite things about snow is...

... stomp-stomp-stomping around in it! Kicking it off my boots before I go inside! Winging snowballs at each other!

Snow makes me feel like a little kid again.

Of course, that's the idealized fluffy blanket of snow I'm talking about, not the slushy slop we have right now. But I remind myself that the slippery slush is part of the bargain: you can't get fluffy light snowball-snow without also taking the slop.

posted by Elsa 09 December | 12:38

It's dark and rainy with wind gusts up to 90 km/h. A good day to stay home.

posted by arse_hat 09 December | 13:20

We have so much snow that school is closed and I don't have to go to work. I'm on my way out to shovel. Yay shoveling!

posted by jessamyn 09 December | 13:26

I love snow and we haven't had any yet this year. :-(

posted by deborah 09 December | 13:46

I love snow. I hate snow.

I live in Tahoe, which means that we get blasted every few weeks or so with snow storms. No one even blinks unless it's at least two feet of snow. First snow is usually Sept. It's been known to snow in June.

I love fluffy, freshly fallen snow and walking my dog in the powder. It makes the world look fresh and clean and good.

I used to live in a place that included snow plowing services. Delightful. Now I don't. It took me 90 minutes to clear my driveway and sidewalk. Good exercise. My five-minute commute to work isn't affected. My car is actually at the shop as we speak, getting my regular tires switched out to my winter studded tires.

posted by heyallie 09 December | 15:09

Ah yes, snow. That mythical white substance that would fall from the sky. Just like that. When I was young.
I've been told they have it as well in exotic faraway places. Where they have elevations above 60 meters and such.
Sigh.

posted by jouke 09 December | 15:19

Today started off foggy and wet, but now it's almost 70F/20C, sunny, and windy. It feels like spring and I'm home with windows open.

posted by BoringPostcards 09 December | 15:41

Snow was and still is a rare event here on the southern coast of NC. Even an inch means the thrill of a snow day. When I lived near Raleigh, our snow was often accompanied by a coating of ice which I do not miss at all.

But, those quiet moments when the snow was fresh and the dawn was quiet were heavenly. It's the quiet that happens when the world stops, just for a moment, and breaths deeply the crispness. It's precious and fleeting.

It's much like we have just after a hurricane exits; the tentative quiet exploration of a world you know, but don't exactly know any longer because nature has changed it. You go outside with a heightened sense of awareness and excitement. It's all new.

Course, then, the chainsaws and generators start up and the spell is broken.

posted by mightshould 09 December | 17:01

Never actually seen snow.

*sigh*

posted by ninazer0 09 December | 17:08

There's no snow in west-central Poland yet! Poland! WTF, world. Where is my snow?!

posted by mdonley 09 December | 17:44

I had so much snow in the first half of my life, I have been happy to do without it for the second :-)

posted by pinky.p 09 December | 18:57

I love snow as long as I'm tucked away in my house, warm and cozy.
I hate snow right now since we're on the brink of a brutal lake effect storm (expected to start at about 10 PM), and I have an 8 AM final tomorrow to get to.

posted by kellydamnit 09 December | 20:30

Oh, forgot to mention - watching Kaylee "porpoise" through the snow is hilarious. She totally loves snow and watching her enjoy it is so much fun.

posted by deborah 09 December | 21:25

I love snow, as long as I don't have to drive in it or I am the only one on the road. Otherwise, I enjoy walking through it, watching it fall, watching the birds come to my feeders...And no matter how my dog is feeling, she perks up in the snow.

posted by redvixen 09 December | 21:50

I miss teh snow!

posted by Doohickie 09 December | 23:11

One of my favorite things about snow is the sound-absorbing, otherwordly quiet it brings, especially when it falls overnight, and the only sound heard in the midst of it is the occasional scrape of a plow coming around.

One of my favorite things is the magical outlining of every shape.

One of my favorite things is the way a real, whomping, civilisation-stopping snowstorm brings out the neighborly gamer in everyone, making people act friendlier and make more interesting choices than they do in everyday life. Especially when it takes the power out. A lot of people talk about how they never met their neighbors until a severe snowstorm.

posted by Miko 09 December | 23:48

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