Can You Say Anything Good About Winter?

Can You Say Anything Good About Winter?​


The scenery

When we lived at the cabin, in the mountains, most every winter day, I used the ol' Nikon
Damn near wore it out

A few of my favorites;

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.....and even a severe storm will pass

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I do miss that....surely do

But

I've learned to really really love electricity

.....and the hand held shower
 

When I was in the US Navy, I spent close to two years in GMTO, Cuba. It's in the southern part of the island, right on the coast. It was mid 80s in the day and, 72 at night. Day after day. We got very little rain. You couldn't have asked for better weather. But I missed the changing seasons. Xmas time was the worst. Who buys a Xmas tree wearing a tee and shorts.? I was in paradise, but I wanted my snow and ice cold weather.. People are weird!!!!
 
The cold & misery of winter that we used to endure due to employment remembered as the reason for moving to the sunny southwest.
 
Here on New England's south coast our winter's are usually somewhat mild. Inland, 15 or 20 miles can make a big difference in increased snowfall and lower temp..

For a number of years we used to spend our winters in SW Florida and still would except for age and infirmities. But, overall, being here in the North, retired and having the kids/grandkids around to clear whatever snow we get and take care of errands for us it's not all that bad.
 
In part, winter is one of the reasons we moved back to Colorado from 10 1/2 years in northeastern Florida (aka Jacksonville). Seems very funny to hear Bing Crosby singing White Christmas in Florida.

However, on Dec 25th, 2010, I was sitting in my recliner, watching tv with the living room window curtain open. "Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing?" I said to myself. I grabbed our video camera and went outside. Our upstairs neighbor was standing by their front door (outside) and said to me "can you believe this?" Well, it was snowing! I zoomed the camera into some trees and it was really coming down. None stuck to anything, but it was coming down. Still have that video.

We've had some "inches" of snow since returning here last August 2019. One snow was 9 inches. Had a good snowstorm this past Sept that shocked a lot of folks, including us. Our first snow here is generally the week of Halloween.
 
Snow fall in NW Pa has changed, 43 years ago, had to wade snow to care for livestock.
When we needed the car ,,hubby had to cut off the bottom of garage door to get car out.

He had a four wheel drive truck that we normally used in the winter.

The 2 snowfalls we've had so far have melted off in a day or so.

We look at snowfall as a challenge.
 
I was born in the Chicago area and lived there for 31 years. I lived & worked in Houston from 1981 and for three of those years I traveled to the northern part of America and southern part of Canada. The greatest part of my work up there in the winters was getting on the planes headed back to Houston.
 
As awful as summer in Florida is, I look forward to "winter" (or our version of it) all year long.

It took forever to get here this year.

Just a few days ago it still felt like Swamptember.
 
Lots of nice thoughts above. One hope here in the SW is that there will be enough rain&snow melt to replenish the reservoirs when it melts, & give the ski areas a little business.

But. Folks who’ve lived in this climate all their lives don’t know how to drive well on it and are a menace. I avoid driving among them till it’s cleared. I They just can’t get that 4 WD doesn’t make a car stop any quicker and don’t know how to handle or avoid skids.
 
YES! No fry an egg on the sidewalk sizzling summer HEAT! I hate the heat of summer, love winter and in SoCal (cali?), we really only have 2 seasons it seems, summer and winter, oh there's occasionally a day or two of fall and ditto for spring but mainly winter or summer and I'll take winter, thank you very much :). Don...
 
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