Today it snowed for the 19th time since early November. The snow has become nothing more than a lackluster annoyance. Its magic has been drowned in the rivers of slush. The first snow of winter always feels significant and almost unreal, as if I were really living in a snow globe where everything is white and pure. But as the snow melts so does its charm. Now it is dirty and irritating. It is nothing unusual or exciting due to the fact that it now snows at least once a week. It has become commonplace to see a blanket of grayish ice-snow-slush-dirt mixture covering lawns, parking lots, driveways, side streets, walkways, everything. It is absurdly excessive. Even after the snow semi-melts my lawn is left a swampland. i could take a boat out on the lakes the snow creates in my backyard. I am over winter and all of its demonic weather. I am done with Bill Evans telling me tomorrows forecast calls for another 1-3 inches. I am fed up with scraping ice off my windshield in 30 degree weather. I am tired of the bottom of my jeans being soaking wet from trekking through unplowed sidewalks. I want to see the grass. I want to be dry. I want the snow to stop.Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Snow- the unnecessary freezing of water
Today it snowed for the 19th time since early November. The snow has become nothing more than a lackluster annoyance. Its magic has been drowned in the rivers of slush. The first snow of winter always feels significant and almost unreal, as if I were really living in a snow globe where everything is white and pure. But as the snow melts so does its charm. Now it is dirty and irritating. It is nothing unusual or exciting due to the fact that it now snows at least once a week. It has become commonplace to see a blanket of grayish ice-snow-slush-dirt mixture covering lawns, parking lots, driveways, side streets, walkways, everything. It is absurdly excessive. Even after the snow semi-melts my lawn is left a swampland. i could take a boat out on the lakes the snow creates in my backyard. I am over winter and all of its demonic weather. I am done with Bill Evans telling me tomorrows forecast calls for another 1-3 inches. I am fed up with scraping ice off my windshield in 30 degree weather. I am tired of the bottom of my jeans being soaking wet from trekking through unplowed sidewalks. I want to see the grass. I want to be dry. I want the snow to stop.
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