Small talk.
The darkness was thicker than she liked. Why was it not sparse as the leaves seemed to be these days? She steadied herself against the molasses, but realizing she was without a spoon, feared for what seemed to be an eventual suffocation...
It's these damn late November days, I tell ya. It's not officially winter, and this year, for some reason, well, it plays mind games with you, or is that only me?!. Cold, cold, warmer, warmer... Cold! It's enough to make you sick. Literally.
Ah, well. I do love the frost that adheres to a car's front and side windows, on its roof, and, yes, even sticking to the rear-view window, in the mornings. The patterns are so beautiful(I think they may be hexagonal!). It's a shame we have timed routines, places to get to, and that there's a setting called defrost.
The one thing, besides snow, that I like about barren trees on a brown landscape, or a white one, is that it causes me to want to become organized. Weird? Yeah. I think so too. It must be something about being able to see through trees, and nature showing off minimalism beautifully. Other than that, I have no idea what makes me feel this way.
It's these damn late November days, I tell ya. It's not officially winter, and this year, for some reason, well, it plays mind games with you, or is that only me?!. Cold, cold, warmer, warmer... Cold! It's enough to make you sick. Literally.
Ah, well. I do love the frost that adheres to a car's front and side windows, on its roof, and, yes, even sticking to the rear-view window, in the mornings. The patterns are so beautiful(I think they may be hexagonal!). It's a shame we have timed routines, places to get to, and that there's a setting called defrost.
The one thing, besides snow, that I like about barren trees on a brown landscape, or a white one, is that it causes me to want to become organized. Weird? Yeah. I think so too. It must be something about being able to see through trees, and nature showing off minimalism beautifully. Other than that, I have no idea what makes me feel this way.
posted by Heather O'Neill | 27.11.05
6 Comments:
This kind of weather reminds me of traffic..constantly stoping and starting. Makes you want to take a much longer route just to feel like you're getting somewhere consistently.
One of the football games I watched this weekend showed a shot of the Gatorade dripping down the stand and freezing before it reached the ground. I had windows open at the time to let the Spring/Fall temps into the house. But I'm much further South.
I tried the animal quiz but it seemed to match to the mood I was in at the time more than anything but it was fun and interesting.
What's the coldest it gets down where you are?
We just had our first snow today! Not really enough to do anything with, just enough to change up the look of the scenery.
We MAY get one snow a year...if we're lucky. But it does get cold...today was a little icy as I dropped my girls off & went to work.
There are SO many pine trees here that it stays a little green all year. I planted a fire red maple the year we moved in our house...the rest are dogwoods and pecan trees. I love to go on the back deck and see the starkness of it all on a cold Winter night.
I'd love to go to Colorado for a Winter. It gets really cold and snowy but the humidity is almost nill so it doesn't chill you to the bone the way it does on the Eastern seaboard. Anyway, I hate to freeze but I love the season.
Your yard sounds beautiful,what, with the dogwoods, and red maple, and pecan trees, and all.
Pecans! I can't help but think of yummy pies.
I know what you mean about Colorado in the winter. I'd love to stay at a place where the snow didn't melt until spring.
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The pecans are great but the competition is fierce. Squirels work 24/7 shifts. My Lab chases enough off so we get a small basket or so each season.
Can you comment more on the onion verses or would it ruin what's left to our imagination?
Good Lab!
I can say that the Onion Girl is mostly a fictitious character who was granted life by becoming a little seed. (The idea for OG was sparked from a book I was reading at the time.) I watered the seed with a little imagination, gave it some moodiness to nourish it, and *zhiiing*, there she is.
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