Walking In This World – Snow
The snow has started. They’re predicting gusts up to 50 mph and 4 to 10 inches of snow, but most of what will be to the south of us if the weather reports are to be trusted. It’s started to snow now, which you can’t really tell in the foreground but that hazy bit down the alley shows it better. The alley isn’t usually this strewn with trash, but the wind has been hellish the last few days and blows all sorts of crap everywhere. It’s got to drive property owners nuts, because no sooner do you clean it, than it’s littered again. Grr.
Weather is strange. It’s one of those things we can’t change, but we like to bitch about it just the same. “It’s snowing!” It’s February. In Chicago. “It’s cold today!” It’s Winter. In Chicago. I’d be more worried if those two things weren’t happening at this time of year in this town. No, this isn’t a rant about global warming, though that is a rant that needs to be had and a problem that faces all of us who live on planet Earth, but my point about the weather is that it is out of our control. If ever there was an answer to “Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,” weather’s it.
So I take pictures of it. I like weather, by and large, because it reminds me I’m a physical body, not just keyboard operating fingers attached to a brain, and I have to wear clothes and make sure that I’m fed and have emergency supplies if we get snowed in. (And, while I’m on that subject, how come I never get snowed in? I want a snow day, damn it!)
We have some snow on the grass here in Lincoln Park but the pavement just looks wet. The wind seems at times to be trying to rearrange things. I\’m not complaining because it was so still last night that even with the window open it was just too warm in the bedroom to get comfortable. Couldn\’t sleep. We\’ve got until 4am though, at which point the Winter Storm Warning will cease to be in effect. I think of this as the year without a winter. Not long until it is technically Spring!
I agree! It\’s weird weather. It was snowing around my office from 1:00 on, but no accumulation. Nothing.
I actually *like* snow. ~pouts~
What neighborhood do you live in? Perhaps we can focus on snow going right there. You can have it all! Well, I\’d include my sister\’s house in Washington state. She misses snow. 🙂
I\’m in Rogers Park.