Let It Snow

While everyone around me moans about 'more snoooooow!?!', I revel in the stuff. Having grown up in NW Ohio, I am used to Winters with lots and lots of snow, below freezing temps, ponds and 'cricks' that actually freeze over that you can skate upon, not to mention roads that were rarely plowed (except maybe the main roads) but we still drove to work, the buses picked up children all over the rural county, and the snow was just a way of life.

Did I mention I adore snow? It has so many facets and types of snowflakes that someone actually wrote a book about it, and how to identify the many types, as well as what to expect when the humidity, air temps, and changing fronts might produce in the way of these lovely bits of frozen water.

The colors of snow reflect our world around us; the skies, the shadows cast by trees and buildings, the sunlight refracting through its crystalline structure.

To this end, I created 'Let It Snow', and have tried to capture just a few of the myriad shapes of individual snowflakes, as well as what it looks like to be in a night snowfall...

Using just four colors of delicas, plus one of charlottes to edge and some size 15 around the clasp and underneath the two-hole CZs at the clasp ends, this creation worked itself bit by bit to its end.

I love it!

I do thank Margie Deeb for posting her version and getting me inspired to create my own.

Enjoy!

The colors of snow

The Eskimos have, well, I forget exactly how many different words for snow, but there are many. Surely some of those words have to do with all the different colors snow seems to have.

Much of the coloration has to do with reflection from its surroundings, as well as from the sky. Still, I have always loved the subtle shifts and play of color found in a fresh bed of snowfall.

Here are a couple for you to enjoy!

Winter fun!

SNOW! Finally, snow for US! Enjoy the pics..

Big Snow

About 6 inches worth, but then the temps warmed, and the rains came,

so it is slop city out there now...still, was pretty last night and I am glad

the dogs and I walked in it during the real snow.

It's Snowing! It's SNOWING!

Well, sort of anyhow...looks like South Carolina and Georgia

are getting most of it AGAIN!

What's with that? I move to the NC mountains, expecting it

snows here, but nooooo, can't let her have snow!

I grew up with snow. lots of it my entire young life, until

I moved to Florida in 1972. I am used to snow, I LIKE snow,

can drive in snow, and don't view it as a life-threatening event

that you must go out and buy bread and milk

(MILK? If you lose power, you can't refrigerate it and

if you put it outside, it freezes...plus, who runs out of bread???)

for, in case you are snowed in for weeks and weeks...c'mon!

If you look at the weather patterns where we live, most of

our weather comes from the Gulf. Warm. and wet. We have

higher humidity here than in the northern mountain areas,

like Boone, and if you watch weatherunderground.com you

will see that temps and humidity often are the same in Winter

as Wilmington, NC area, where we moved from....so not fair!

Summers ARE cooler here, thank goodness, but where is my SNOW??

Here is a pic of Tippy, just a year old, looking confused at the

dusting of whatever on the deck and the spidersilks hanging f

rom the tree by the corner of the house, where the poor spiders

woke up and hatched this week, while the temps were in the 60s.

Poor things!

Hoping we get more snow, but you know what they say around here

....."it can't snow here...doncha know it never snows in Hell?"!! (

referring to how hot it gets downtown in Bryson- they chop down

all the trees in town, and it being in a bowl(valley) and lots of asphalt,

it gets in the high 90s all Summer-thank goodness we live out of town

and up the mountain, with lots of trees).

Crossing my fingers for REAL snow! But NOT holding my breath.