More trees

[cosmolinguist]

These are the trees I was missing when I was taking pictures of these trees.



These are trees around our house. And not just trees, of course, but snow! I don't remember ever being as excited for snow as I have been this year. I know well that the excitement, no matter how much there is, wears off long before winter iss over ... but with any luck I should be out of here before that happens this year! Admittedly I'll be somewhere just as cold and dreary, but without the snow. Maybe that's why I'm so glad to see it now.



And of course this snow won't last. Not with that sun. And it's supposed to get into the low forties this weekend, so whatever's left today will be burned off then. In the meantime the sunlight makes the snow dazzle, and the cloudless sky doesn't seem to know it's no longer autumn, because it's still that breathtaking blue that you see at no other time of the year.

Comments

[hulagalinthesky.livejournal.com]

Looks like you are in the middle of nowhere. I would go INSANE. I need the city.

[cosmolinguist]

We certainly are. As my tenth-grade English teacher said after he asked which of us lived on farms, "It's not quite the end of the world... but you can see the end of the world from the back forty."

[quuf.livejournal.com]

That's so very beautiful. Makes me want to run out and roll in the stuff (says the clueless Californian).

How close is your nearest neighbor?

[cosmolinguist]

There are probably half a dozen within a mile or two-mile radius. One or two you can get to by actually walking a mile or two on the road. (One of those places is visible as the patch of trees in the background of my first picture here.)

This snow's nearly gone now, all mud and puddles, but there'll be more soon and plenty of time for rolling around in it.