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Feb. 15th, 2014 09:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatSo I wrote this on Facebook:
As I watch the blizzard raging out my windows...so thick you can't see past the grill ironwork of the fire escape...I think, no more, no more. The first snow in a city is white and pristine, quiet, and soft as a down blanket. But then, alas, as time wears on, it gets pockmarked by the city. Stained by dog pee (at least I think it is dog pee), windshield wiper fluid (it's blue, so that's a guess), dirt, trash, weird red and pink dies...in short the city has a bit of fun with it. And if it is cold, it freezes and becomes hard as a rock. Then more snow comes...and more. Until we have various layers. All stacked up in piles, sometimes waist high, standing like barriers between the road and the sidewalk. Winter, I've decided, is better suited to rural areas...where things stay pretty.
My aunts took exception. Notably they are my father's sisters...
Apparently rural snow gets very yellow in the winter. Although I remember it being rather white in rural PA and suburban Kansas...but that's just me.
As I watch the blizzard raging out my windows...so thick you can't see past the grill ironwork of the fire escape...I think, no more, no more. The first snow in a city is white and pristine, quiet, and soft as a down blanket. But then, alas, as time wears on, it gets pockmarked by the city. Stained by dog pee (at least I think it is dog pee), windshield wiper fluid (it's blue, so that's a guess), dirt, trash, weird red and pink dies...in short the city has a bit of fun with it. And if it is cold, it freezes and becomes hard as a rock. Then more snow comes...and more. Until we have various layers. All stacked up in piles, sometimes waist high, standing like barriers between the road and the sidewalk. Winter, I've decided, is better suited to rural areas...where things stay pretty.
My aunts took exception. Notably they are my father's sisters...
Apparently rural snow gets very yellow in the winter. Although I remember it being rather white in rural PA and suburban Kansas...but that's just me.
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Date: 2014-02-16 05:29 pm (UTC)AGREED!!!
I love winter in rural places. I hate it in the city.