I haven’t listened to a forecast lately, but if it’s a weekend, it must be snow. We’ve had snow or ice every weekend for a month. This is a pile of snow in the parking lot of the Emporia Arts Center. Snow along busy streets is black and grimy. Part of this looks green – …
About Face
The good news: The Emporia Gazette finally turned its webcam to face the west. The bad news: No sunset. A bleak winter day. It’s snowing as we speak. (The cold I can actually deal with, but I am so tired of snow and ice.)
The Good Old Days
Single-digit temperatures. Sub-zero wind chills. Icy parking lots. I could go for a 99-degree day right about now. One of those days when you have to eat your ice cream cone quickly so that it doesn’t get your hand all gooey and sticky. One of those days when your sweat-soaked shirt sticks to the car …
Chipping Away
This straight hoe has been a somewhat effective ice-chipping tool. This is compacted sleet – from the first storm two weeks ago. We got about 2 inches of sleet then – covered last weekend by 6 inches of snow- and while the snow has been shoveled off, the sleet is now compressed down to about …
Leftovers
It’s been five weeks since the winter solstice. Light hangs on a little longer, warming the earth for a few more minutes each day. Around town, snow is piled 7-feet-high in the corners of parking lots. The snow, as fresh as clean sheets when it fell last Saturday, is now diesel-covered and grimy. Yards, smooth …
Monday morning
Same world. Just colder, slower. Whiter. Today, a Monday, the town moves again. Cars drive by, buses. The sanitation truck grinds and clangs as its mechanical arm lifts a gray trash bin from the curb. The 8-year-old neighbor girl runs off to school, books tight in the crook of her left arm. A navy coat …
But wait, there’s more…
Two more winter photos are on Dave’s Casual Images site: Winter Parking Lot and Rope Swing.
After the Storm
A Tunnel of White “Shoveling’s good for your character,” my brother wrote in an e-mail yesterday after I told him I had been scooping snow off our sidewalk. Using a yardstick this morning, I measured 6 inches in places, nearly 8 inches in others. Although I had pre-shoveled our walk yesterday, it had 5 more …
Barnstorming
Dave went out in the county this afternoon and took this photo. Snow has swallowed us. This evening the world is black and white.
a billion flakes
It started snowing about noon and we probably have about 3/4″ so far. The street that was clear is now snow-covered again – one step forward, two steps back. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * …