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What a difference a day makes The snow has been falling steadily from just before sunrise and looks set for some time still. It lends a magical beauty to the woodlands and open spaces just outside our front door so after clearing the drive and the street outside the house, a walk in the ever deepening snow was a must. We do not see enough snow and it does not stay long enough for us to get tired of it . Some of the nooks and crannies in the woods really do look like fairy grottos and the wide open spaces in the park are so clean and white. A good 4 - 5 km in the cold and the falling snow is an excellent way of working up an appetite. Some of the uphills were beginning to get quite 'testing' by the time I was making my way back in the ever decreasing light and the thickening fog. Somehow twilight in the snow has much more of a feeling of light about it than twilight at any other time despite the thickly overcast skies. What little light there is seems to reflect off the snow.           |
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Yesterday it was sunny and everywhere was green.
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Wow~~~~~ I always say that snow looks soooo beautiful.... if you're on the side looking out!! 
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We get snow like that here on the west coast and it doesn't stay very long. A number of years ago we had a big snowstorm and traffic literaliy came to a standstill until they could clear it out. Usually we get a rainstorm right after and it is like it never had snowed. But it is pretty if you don't have to drive in it. That particular snowfall brought out the x-country skiers who wee skiing on the beach at English Bay. You have nice snow pictures posted on your blog.
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I remember living in Ohio, U.S.A. and it started snowing in the late morning. Down it came! I started measuring it with a yardstick and it would be an inch to an inch and a half deeper each time. When we went to bed it was like a fairyland and measuring 36 inches! Next morning it measured 39 inches. The onramp to the freeway going west was closed and you could see a truck stuck just down from us...the onramp was just past our driveway. I still think about it each winter. My girl's dad was a Navy recruiter and had to go to work across the bridge over the freeway and down to town. It was cleared on the road into town. The next year we moved to Indiana and had ONLY 34 inches that first year. When I moved to middle Georgia, U.S.A. we had 2 or 3 inches the first year, also the 2nd year. We had some last year out in the country and naturally we had to go see it...  I remember saying I will never miss snow and sat by the front window and watched it. Go figure.........
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These days, this is the way I most enjoy snow: through someone else's pictures! Strange as it might sound, I kind of like fog, except if I have to drive in it. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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