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A gentle new snow has fallen since I got up. \u00a0It will freshen up the landscape, make it softer and whiter. \u00a0 The barriers between our home and the Arctic get taken down in the\u00a0winter months. \u00a0Arctic air masses plunge south, creating large swaths of blue on the weather maps. \u00a0They chill us just as they do the polar bears and lynx and wolves of the far north.<\/p>\n
We get our largest snow amounts though when Gulf Air, moist and warm, gets sucked up north where it meets these air masses. \u00a0This union of north and south chills the rain, makes it into crystals and they tumble out of the clouds. \u00a0A snow sociologist (yes, there is such a specialty.) says that one of winter’s special characteristics comes from snow erasing clear borders, blurring boundaries between fences and open pastures, between rooflines and the ground, between road and ditch, between yard and driveway and sidewalk.<\/p>\n
A sense of newness comes over us as summer’s sharp lines grow curves and those good fences making good neighbors become lumps under drifts. \u00a0The world made new as the snow falls and falls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Samhain \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Winter Moon A gentle new snow has fallen since I got up. \u00a0It will freshen up the landscape, make it softer and whiter. \u00a0 … Continue reading Snow<\/span>