Another American Adventure: snow in PA

Saturday, October 29, 2011

snow in PA

I can't believe I missed this!! John took these photos early this morning. The first snow, and Jubilee and I are swimming in Florida.
(Had to take Jubilee in for a steroid shot this morning. Five days in Florida and she was overcome with her allergies. At least we caught it before major infections had set in - I hope.)

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BarbaraOctober 29, 2011 at 2:35 PM
Great photos. Hope Jubilee responds well to the shot and deals with her allergies. My boys are growing their winter coats -- looks like a cold one is coming!
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beth cioffolettiNovember 3, 2011 at 5:35 AM
It's sure starting early! Can't wait to get back north!
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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.