Snow and I are still getting to know one another and we're still in the honeymoon stage. Growing up seaside, it still holds so much wonder for me. Sure, it's cold and somewhat dangerous but mostly I'm awestruck that in a few hours, snow can transform an ordinary cement parking lot into a field of sparkling diamonds.
I've also learned that the tiny snowflakes fit so tightly together they actually forms a blanket. When you make a snowgal, you can even roll it up like carpet - astounding. Check it out: When I came out to my car a few days ago, a newly formed white comforter had skidded off my truck's roof like it has been slicked with oil. Too cool. It looks like I could have rolled it up like a pool's solar blanket.
I'm also learning that snow here in Colorado is mostly dry. When it gets into my truck, I just brush it off the seat like crumbs and nothing gets wet. Weird. I thought snow was always kinda wet and mushy, no? At least that's what I'd heard.
The shapes it takes are all reminiscent of something else. Like this curl here, which to me evokes being inside a breaking wave. I think surfers call it The Green Room.
Not sure I'll be this fascinated when it comes my time to shovel. Snow and I still have a long way to go....
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I think that's one of the better things about snow in Colorado - it usually melts before you have to shovel anything.
And I complain only when shoveling the wet, heavy snow, and those seems to be our spring snowstorms (which, rumor has it, is coming this spring. Oh joy, oh rapture!).
Glad you are enjoying the white stuff. I've lived here 33 years and I haven't grown tired of seeing it yet.
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