Snowhomish
It snowed yesterday and the sun was out, making the snow glitter like 1970's dance clubs, no, too gold.... like some glimmering soft sparkling white-skied watery-eyed magic-land.
I was at work, in the early morning when the snow was going vertical and everything was darker, driving the pickle around with the wind whipping everywhere, and I almost felt like I was in Antarctica again.
I like attaching things to the forks with big rusty chains and hooks and dragging tri-walls and crates out to where I can get at them easier. Time goes fast when you are working and moving and getting dirty outside among the melted puddles and muddy banks of still-frozen snow, and your nose is running into your scarf and you have to squint through sunglasses or else you'll go snow blind from looking at the radiance of the sea ice. You can't even see the sea ice and mountain ranges without sunglasses most days. They are just too reflective.
On Sunday Sandwich and i went on the Armitage loop road, which loops out onto the sea ice and around Ob Hill. it was pearlescent vistas of beauty out there, so silent and so ethereal, and I wondered why I don't leave town more. I have resolved to do so. We of course had a great time and did some silly picture taking (see image above where I pat the head of "Ob Hill" a cindercone that is the town's most recognizable landmark).
I was at work, in the early morning when the snow was going vertical and everything was darker, driving the pickle around with the wind whipping everywhere, and I almost felt like I was in Antarctica again.
I like attaching things to the forks with big rusty chains and hooks and dragging tri-walls and crates out to where I can get at them easier. Time goes fast when you are working and moving and getting dirty outside among the melted puddles and muddy banks of still-frozen snow, and your nose is running into your scarf and you have to squint through sunglasses or else you'll go snow blind from looking at the radiance of the sea ice. You can't even see the sea ice and mountain ranges without sunglasses most days. They are just too reflective.
On Sunday Sandwich and i went on the Armitage loop road, which loops out onto the sea ice and around Ob Hill. it was pearlescent vistas of beauty out there, so silent and so ethereal, and I wondered why I don't leave town more. I have resolved to do so. We of course had a great time and did some silly picture taking (see image above where I pat the head of "Ob Hill" a cindercone that is the town's most recognizable landmark).
Sandwich is fun with a capital F. I have rarely seen such a zest for life, and sillyness and love and childlike wonder and enthusiam. I am glad to have her as one of my closest buddies down here.
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Sandwich's for everyone! (she is sort of famous on the internet because of this. I met a lot of people on the way down who had gotten introduced to Antarctica through her website.
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Sandwich's for everyone! (she is sort of famous on the internet because of this. I met a lot of people on the way down who had gotten introduced to Antarctica through her website.
posted by The Sensualist @ 7:08 PM
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Very cute picture! How much snow do you get when it does snow at McMurdo?
Are you archive links working? All of the months under the "Archives" heading seem to produce 404s.
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