Another American Adventure: more snow

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

more snow

This is what we woke up to! It's a white wonder land. Probably about 6 inches, but it's falling off the trees in big wet clumps and melting fast!

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BarbaraMarch 6, 2013 at 5:58 PM
Wet Spring snow. Yuck. I wish I had slush boots. This is the kind of snow they have in Japan. They have to build umbrellas around trees to keep their shapes under the weight of wet snow.
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beth cioffolettiMarch 7, 2013 at 4:49 AM
Yes, slush boots! THat's just what I need too. What a mess this stuff is. And now it's so hard that you can't walk on/through it. Crunch. Crunch. I'll be glad to see this stuff go.
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"In those first days, people said, a squirrel could run the long length of Pennsylvania without ever touching the ground. In those first days, the woods were white oak and chestnut, hickory, maple, sycamore, walnut, wild ash, wild plum, and white pine. The pine grew on the ridgetops where the mountains' lumpy spines stuck up and their skin was thinnest.

"The wilderness was uncanny, unknown. Benjamin Franklin had already invented his stove in Philadelphia by 1753, and Thomas Jefferson was a schoolboy in Virginia; French soldiers had been living in forts along Lake Erie for two generations. But west of the Alleghenies in western Pennsylvania, there was not even a settlement, not even a cabin. No Indians lived there, or even near there.

"Wild grapevines tangled the treetops and shut out the sun. Few songbirds lived in the deep woods. Bright Carolina parakeets - red, green, and yellow - nested in the dark forest. There were ravens then, too. Woodpeckers rattled the big trees' trunks, ruffed grouse whirred their tail feathers in the fall, and every long once in a while a nervous gang of empty-headed turkeys came hustling and kicking through the leaves - but no one heard any of this, no one at all."

Annie Dillard, An American Childhood.