the world is white
i am currently making a christmas gift. or, i was, until i decided to light my candy cane candle. (it smells like a candy cane! it is quite possibly the best candle ever.) the flame and the smoke distracted me and i pulled out my camera.
when i went to the bathroom to douse the matches, i glanced out the window and saw a solitary brown oak leaf scampering across the snow-covered road. the leaf paused for a second when it got to the snowbank on the other side, but then it jumped over the snowbank and into the swamp.
a storm blew in on wednesday afternoon. fortunately, atlas and i went for a hike on tuesday and another hike on wednesday morning, because the gusty blustery biting wind is hard on atlas’s ears so we are now lying low. it is a little quieter today, but it is no less cold. i took atlas for a morning walk and when i glanced at him a short while after breakfast, i noticed that he was shivering. i settled him on the bed underneath two warm blankets and he is catching up on his sleep.
i will confess that i wondered how i’d survive winter. though i grew up here, i’ve been gone a long time, and i thought it might be too cold. but the cold must be in my blood, because i am here and it is less cold than i remember (by which i mean, my body has adjusted so now 30 here feels rather like 50 in portland) and i love it. also, i had forgotten one thing about this kind of winter, which is that the cold and the wind and the snow make me feel so alive.
wherever you are, i wish you warmth.
i’m so glad you’re already used to it again! and find it beautiful.
and i’m glad you’re a noticer. some people wouldn’t even notice if atlas was chilled . . . or that the really cold air hurts his ears . . . but you do!
our land is still completely white here. ice and then snow. but lovely deep snow. I LOVE IT! but then i don’t have to drive to work in it. LOL.
a world of difference there in the enjoyment quotient i’m thinking! XOXO
ours will be melting sometime this week when the temps rise. but til then . . .
how beautiful it is!
You got snow! How exciting! Yes. I also do not have to drive, except once a week to buy Atlas’s dog food – and I could buy extra and store it in the outdoors-which-is-like-a-freezer if need be or wait a few days until it’s nicer. It really does help.
p.s. I will confess that Atlas got much too cold today. I misread the signs and feel badly. But we got him warm again, and I learned a lot, and now it probably won’t happen again, at least in the same way.
Oooo… candy cane-scentrf candle…mmm… Must try not to eat… LOL! So glad you’re finding your way with the snow and cold. We had snow here this weekend… a good 12+-inches, and it’s still snowing. I’m originally from a place that doesn’t get much snow, not living in the Land of the Far North–funny how things go. Thought I’ve lived here some years, I till have to befriend snow & cold annually… ;o) Happy Days, Elizabeth ((HUGS))