Winter (637 hits)
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Submitted by The Nick <nickuhlig.at.gmail.com> (View user info) at 2005-11-24 12:39:33 EST
I like the way snow smells. I know it sounds dumb but when you walk out of your front door and everything's coated with snow, the air smells different. The only way to describe it is that it smells cold and moist.
I like the way it looks. Trees with their branches frosted with white, the outlines of things on the ground blurred by their jacket of snow. Rooves pristine, not an imperfection to be found in their thick layer of pack snow.
I like being the first person to walk through fresh snow. I like to watch my own footprints behind me. I like to see how other people walked through it, if they fell, slid, stood and talked to someone, did a snow angel, jumped, walked around some obstacle now long gone. What kind of shoes they wear. How big their feet are. Snow is in this way like a window into other people's lives; just when they're walking. You won't ever know anything about them other than how they walked on such a day, and how the snow affected their travel.
I like seeing it snow. The best are the big, thick flakes that seem to buffer the wind. If there's nobody around you can stand outside and not hear a noise, except for the snow itself falling. Like the softest of statics, each flake hitting the ground contributes to the almost silent orchestra of snow falling on a winter's day.
I like the way it feels. All snow...any snow. I like to run my hand through loose snow, feel it move like water but not flow on its own. I like packing snowbals, making snowmen, making snowangels, writing things with my footprints, shovelling snow, digging tunnels, and just lying in snow.
I like waking up and not being able to see my car. One year we got almost a metre of snow in one night, and school was closed for a week. We couldn't see each other's houses after we had cleared our driveways, and it took a whole day for everyone to help their neighbours if they didn't have snowblowers. When I walked out into the carport there was a wall of snow just where the roof ended. I jumped in and it was like swimming in a cloud.
I like skiing on snow. The almost frictionless slide of cross country skis sliding over a freshly groomed trail. Tears coming from my eyes from the wind as I go down a large hill. The crunch when my skis dig in as I climb another one. The creak when my poles move in the snow. The little pieces that fly up when they come out.
I like the feeling I get when the first snow arrives. Like this winter will be better than the last, even though the last one ws a good one. I like how girls look in toques. I like the feeling of a scarf around my neck, and being bundles up against the cold. I even like the sting of a cold wind in my face. I like that lack of mobility in my hands when I've been outside for a long time. I like the tautness in my face after walking back from class. I like how tea and coffee taste in the winter...the temperature makes them taste better some how. I like the way the light changes in winter...it's brighter, cleaner. I like waking up with that light coming in through my window.
I like Christmas. I like buying things for other people and having things bought for me. I like the thought that's involved; you have to think about someone for a while before you know what to get them. There's a certain amount of calculated risk involved, and when you see them smile it makes you feel like a better friend for having made a good choice, a good judgement of another person's character or personality. I like the business around Christmas. I like how everyone has something to do, something to get, someone to see. I like how people will answer the phone with "Merry Christmas" instead of "Hello". I even like the days after Christmas when the good cheer is wearing off like a buzz, and everyone's enjoying the new stuff they got, eating leftovers, saying goodbye to friends and relatives who were down for the holidays.
I like the months after Christmas and New Year, when school starts up again and it's like September, but much colder. A fresh start, and a new semester. I like how everyone's back in a good mood because after the previous year is over you get a sense of release, and you can begin to try to forget about anything that might have gone wrong, and you can begin to think about how to make the new year even better than the last.
I like winter.
User Reviews
Submitted by Unbound (user info) at 2005-11-25 18:08:06 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
This was sweet. I remember a few flashes of snowy winters & how much fun it was to be the first one to crunch the way through some new snow. Personally I liked it best at night time, the way the moon would light up the ground.
Damn, now I want some apple cider.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-11-25 17:34:43 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
Interesting. I like winter, too.
Winter in South Carolina, where it's 60 degrees - brrrrrr- in December and I'm playing golf Saturday and Sunday.
Snow can go fuck itself.
Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2005-11-25 17:24:19 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
"I highly doubt that a city as far south as Cleveland has a six month winter."
Maybe not 6 months of winter, but 4 months of snow and 2 months of just plain shit.
Submitted by Bizdorph (user info) at 2005-11-25 16:55:10 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Indeed, we have the five month Ontario winter where I'm from. Beginning of November 'til the end of March. Last year the temperature in the Sault reached -36 celsius for several days. I refuse to convert to Fahrenheit.
I highly doubt that a city as far south as Cleveland has a six month winter.
Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2005-11-25 11:04:22 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
You obvioulsy don't have the 6 month Cleveland winter.
It's 80°F (27°C) where I live now. Eternal summer. I can't wait to go back for Christmas though.
Submitted by dangerdude (user info) at 2005-11-24 21:28:26 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Fuck winter
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2005-11-24 20:29:28 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
i won't see snow this winter unless i drive many hours northward.
:(
Submitted by Fungah (user info) at 2005-11-24 17:55:02 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
yes
Submitted by spedmonkey (user info) at 2005-11-24 13:19:11 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Agreed.
Submitted by mikethescottish (user info) at 2005-11-24 13:12:01 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I understand ya. Linkwhore to a similar post of mine: http://www.ubersite.com/m/56931.
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2005-11-24 12:55:17 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Maddog (user info) at 2005-11-24 12:50:50 (#)
Ranking: 0
Next weeks chapter: "I like mud".
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This was probably +1 worthy, but that comment was great.
Submitted by Maddog (user info) at 2005-11-24 12:50:50 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Next weeks chapter: "I like mud".