First Snowfall

[abracanabra]

In honor of the first snowfall, I am wearing my new Victoria's Secret panties with sparkly snowflakes all over them.

I encourage you all to do something slightly whimsical to celebrate--and tell me about it.

Comments

[brent-woodfill.livejournal.com]

I grew up in the 'Cities and I still think that the first snowfall is magical. Doesn't hurt that I haven't lived around it since '99, though.

Every snowfall is magical in Nashville--everyone freaks out and gets into accidents trying to rush to the store to buy water and other supplies just in case they're snowed in for weeks (with frozen pipes, I'm assuming). Of course it's normally gone the following day . . .

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

The first snowfall *is* magical. I don't think I could ever be happy living someplace that doesn't really have changing seasons. Of course, I've always been a fan of the transition seasons: Spring and Fall. One season I really miss? Monsoon. I never got tired of it. Well, I can always hope that the changing global weatherpatterns bring the monsoon season to Minnesota.

everyone freaks out and gets into accidents

Yeah, that's magical all right...for a certain value of 'magical'.

[brent-woodfill.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming that monsoon season is pretty much the rainy season here. I still haven't decided if I like it or not, as I'm either walking around with about 30 pounds of mud on each shoe in the field or shivering wet in the city. I do like the canicula (is that a word in English even? A few week break in the rains after the beginning of the rainy season? One of the options on spell-check here was Caligula, which is pretty funny), though

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Monsoon season...rainy season...pretty much the same thing. Everything just comes to life and starts to grow like crazy. It was especially noticeable in Africa, where for three-quarters of the year it was difficult to make anything grow.

[brent-woodfill.livejournal.com]

Parts of Guatemala between where I work and where I live are like that. It's kind of surreal passing through in different parts of the year, where there are either cacti surrounded by skeletal trees (like something out of a spaguetti Western, but not quite) or vibrant green shrubs and trees whose leaves almost completely cover the cacti. But most of the rest of the country just fluctuates between wetter and drier, hotter and cooler.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

there are either cacti surrounded by skeletal trees (like something out of a spaguetti Western, but not quite) or vibrant green shrubs and trees whose leaves almost completely cover the cacti

Precisely. That's what I love about it: the surreality. I suppose that won't come as a surprise to anybody.

[brent-woodfill.livejournal.com]

I have to say that I love this whole "reply to a reply to a reply to a reply" thing. It's kind of like phone tag, but not.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Oh, lord. Whatever were we thinking when we got you signed up to livejournal??

[brent-woodfill.livejournal.com]

ha!