first snow

[egypturnash]

After we crawled out of bed, we decided to go out for some pastries. Then we looked outside.

It's snowing.

Big poofy ice-crystals drifting down from the sky.

We went out anyway. It wasn't too cold, really. Just... lightly snowing. I've never been snowed on before.

I tried to catch some of in my hand. It didn't stay long enough for me to look at it. I tried catching it in my mouth. I felt kinda stupid doing this.

This is the first time I've been snowed on. Obviously, it won't be the last. It's kinda pretty but I kinda miss California and New Orleans already.

Comments

[kaputotter.livejournal.com]

You'll be sick turquoise of it by mid-January, trust me. :D

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The whole "cold" thing isn't something I ever look forwards to. I like being able to see the sun and feel it!

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

We get just barely enough snow in the NW to never be sick of it, but it has a habit of shutting everything down because there aren't enough plows and snow chains to deal with the fallout.

[orb2069.livejournal.com]

Layers, layers and more layers. It's rare I go out after October without at least two layers of clothing on.

(I'm sure that a corset and/or a latex bodysuit would be more than enough to keep you warm - Not that you'd get to leave the house much wearing them, or anything, but they'd be warm.)

[neillparatzo.livejournal.com]

What is this? Everyone in the northeast US is talking about snow, and meanwhile I'm up here in Quebec and it was sunny and warm today! Did we just switch magnetic poles or something?

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I think it's hurricane remnants.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

My folks and I live in different parts of Quebec, mostly, and though I haven't seen snow yet so far, they told me that, during this past week, they did. Go figure.

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

*smiles*

It's amazing ... I grew up with heavy, filthy snow every winter, the streets covered with slushy ice, the skies a uniform slate-gray. The first time I experienced bright sun and T-shirt weather in December was when I was 11, and I remember being absolutely flabbergasted. I never really fully got used to it, even after a decade and a half ...

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I grew up in New Orleans. Then I spent most of a decade in California.

The Christmas after my father died, my mother and I went to New York. I think it tried to snow, but it vanished by the time it made it down through the heat island of all the buildings.

I really fear this forthcoming winter. It's a good thing I have freelance work going on that can happen entirely over the internet, so I don't have to face the cold every day.

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

There are some ways of dealing with it ... there's an energy trick I know that may help a little, though I don't know if it works for anyone but me.

[zeeth_kyrah]

You'd be surprised.

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

You mean... there are places... without winter?!

And you're coming HERE!?

I'm looking forward to it either way, but should we be flattered, or just concerned for your sanity? ;)

Not that I can say much. I've had FOUR chances to completely relocate, and every time I just seem to move back and forth across the north of the damn country. :p

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

I just feel that a few months of unpleasant weather is an acceptable price to pay for living in a city with culture and art and cool people and stuff.

As much as I loved the weather in Florida in winter ... summer was six months long and frequently life-threatening, and Boca Raton is still the most dead, boring place I've ever lived. (Even here in Lombard, similarly empty of anything that I might consider fun, there's a major city only 45 minutes away by train; I'm just never able to afford to go.)

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

You are really gonna love Boston, then. ♥ We live a 15-20 minute walk away from an improv comedy theater, a number of art galleries, and a late-night Punjabi restaurant. There are about ten different ethnicities of food within walking distance, and about twenty within a single bus hop. And Harvard Square isn't nearly as cool as it used to be, but it still feels good knowing you're that close to a major center of civilization... that attracts sci-fi book shops, dessert cafes, and an art-house theater (if a sadly imperiled one).

Yeah, okay, I wouldn't trade civilization for warmth either. :)

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow ... and that theater has an open-mike night too, right?

What kind of art galleries? I still have wonderfully fond memories of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; I used to be able to spend days in there, trying to figure out how they got those amazing effects. (I insisted on going back to the Red Grooms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Grooms) exhibit twice during the week it was there.)

*smiles* I have fond memories of brief trips to Boston ... and I miss just having the possibility of going into the city for the day.