Yes, it’s the 26th. The Feast of Stephen. And, amazingly, it is snowy. I’m still trying to wrap my head around this idea. I know, we’ve seen snow here before and even in much larger quantities, but after the overall increased heat and diminished precipitation of the last couple of years I was certainly not expecting anything snowy to happen, least of all right on the great day of Christmas itself. So it’s kind of amazing to have snow on the ground a whole day later. Oh, and pretty.
The snow is lying round about, all right, though not so deep. Relatively even, yes, and it’s definitely crisp. And did I mention pretty?
Happy winter. Happy holidays. I’m happy to be looking out the window at sparkly, snowy, gleaming prettiness. Sure hope the ice on the road doesn’t slow us down any tomorrow, though, or my shallow delight and appearance-centric enthusiasm will undoubtedly flag. Unless King Wenceslas wants to come out and blaze the trail for us, which might be kind of cool. No pun intended. Aw, what the heck. Let it snow!
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I hate to bother you with this after such a beautiful post- if you have no advise or just don’t fell like dealing with Publishing problems” feel free to ignore…
I am again having problems getting ANYthing to publish, the little “publishing” circle just goes round and round, never stopping. WordPress doesnt seem interested in helping,I finally figured out last time that I could partially fill in the blanks, leave out tags, etc and push publish and then go back and edit-even that isnt working now. Its just so frustrating when I read and become excited about a prompt or such and then cannot get it on my blog. Thanks for reading, your photos are truly beautiful. beebeesworld
Oh, I’m so sorry to hear you’re having such frustrating tech problems!! My WP connection *has* seemed a little slow and even had a few freeze-ups lately, but each time *so far* has revived after a couple more tries. Once or twice I had to either shut down and reboot my computer entirely (because the freezing got so entrenched it froze all of my other computer operations) or wait an hour or two before re-trying. So far, at least, every time this has happened I *was* able to Save the post, so I could come back to retry Publishing it.
I suppose that if I couldn’t get anything to go through at all I might try switching from Firefox to Explorer or something like that in case it was some bug in the connection, but I haven’t gotten that jammed up quite yet (knock wood). Beyond that, I’m afraid I have *zero* tech skills, so I don’t know if any of this will help you at all! Hope someone wiser can assist you soon! And, whatever happens on the computer side of things, I wish you happy holidays and a glorious new year!
Beautiful….but for how long? Here, as you are well aware, we will be with whiteness until the end of March, possibly beyond, it is already starting to “pile up” We hope you & Mr. are well, enjoying all the reads, (every one)
You are, of course, the voice of reason in this episode. Snow is much prettier when it’s truly ephemeral!!! I shall think of you Edmonton lovelies with sympathy. But honestly, I *am* enjoying our little moment of snowy beauty just now. We’re heading to New Braunfels/San Antonio tomorrow, and R’s cousin down there says it’s not snowed there and the storm only brought heavy winds as it passed through, so I pretty much expect we’ll be leaving the snow behind shortly after we leave–hence my determination to enjoy it while our time in it lasts.
Meanwhile, sending you and Mireille tons of love and best wishes for a glorious 2013 from both of us here! Oh, and maybe we’ll get to see you this year? 🙂
OH HOW GREAT!!!! Enjoy your snow and HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU TO!!!
Thanks! It was such fun–been a long time since we’ve had a glimpse of snow around home. 🙂
You, Mom (in Oklahoma) and Dad (in North Arkansas) have snow…
Me, in Supposedly Snowy New England? 50 degrees, rain, and gale-force winds…go figure. 😉
Enjoy it!
I’ve decided generally that Abnormal is the new Normal when it comes to weather, worldwide. 🙂
Unbelievable! We, near The Lake, had a light dusting of snow on Christmas morning and about another inch or so fell today. Nothing at all like what you’ve received. In the end, it’s all moisture and if it eventually helps to ease the drought of some areas, all the better.
We’ve been having rain and mist intermittently throughout our little holiday road-trip with Mom and Dad S, and it’s been quite welcome here in TX!
Get a little bit of all kinds of weather in Texas, ever as intermittent as such may be…
Pretty much everywhere I’ve ever gone, there’s been some version of the saying, ‘if you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes’–and it seems to me to only get more exaggeratedly so as the years pass. Nothing like weird and wonderful Mother Nature!