Snow...
It's such a foreign thing to us as Melbournians - I mean, I've made the 5 or so hour trek to Falls Creek and the shorter 2-3 hours to Mount Bulla for boarding a few times (albeit a couple of years ago now)...
But, living in it - day to day, walking through it to get to the train station, to work, and home again each day - that's something altogether different...
It creates a really alien landscape, beautiful, eerie, fresh and crisp... I love the way it makes everything lighter - and here that's a really big thing. Without it here it's very dark and grey a lot of the time... Thankfully the days are getting longer - so the sun's up before 8am and setting after 4pm these days, the darkness - much more than the cold is a really hard thing to get used to...
It snowed yesterday, snowed and stayed for the first time in weeks - we really thought that winter seemed to be coming to an end, but yesterday it came back again - and today it was sooo beautiful... Looking out the window this morning, the courtyard in all full of fresh snow, and the trees and street out the front all white and pretty... And it was deep when we stepped out the front door this morning, there'd been something like 15cms overnight - and walking across the square to work it was cool that they hadn't thrown the grit in it yet that they normally do - and the path through was not from some artificial source - but was just there because people had walked there and everyone that came through just found it easier to follow in the footsteps that had come through before them...
It made me smile today, to see it all white and pretty and fresh - you kind of forget how white it is - when it's fresh like that... After the cars come through on the roads (not so much today as they were mostly snowed in!) and the grit gets thrown down to make it easier to walk through, it's grey and then when the days are dark and grey, it's a really grey feeling... But today, white and light and bright...
I'm glad it came today, and glad that it was such a big fall overnight and that there wasn't yet the time for it to be grey and we got to see it that way - I go home to Melbourne in a few days, just for a quick trip to pack up our apartment and put our lives into storage before heading back over here for the next 12+ months - and while I know that I'll see more snow, if not this winter (which we're no longer kidding ourselves is coming to a close) - certainly the next one but it was nice to get this fix before heading home for a couple of weeks...
I even got to make a snow angel finally (was getting worried that I'd missed my chance!!)...
Friday, February 11, 2011
Snow...
Snow...
It's such a foreign thing to us as Melbournians - I mean, I've made the 5 or so hour trek to Falls Creek and the shorter 2-3 hours to Mount Bulla for boarding a few times (albeit a couple of years ago now)...
But, living in it - day to day, walking through it to get to the train station, to work, and home again each day - that's something altogether different...
It creates a really alien landscape, beautiful, eerie, fresh and crisp... I love the way it makes everything lighter - and here that's a really big thing. Without it here it's very dark and grey a lot of the time... Thankfully the days are getting longer - so the sun's up before 8am and setting after 4pm these days, the darkness - much more than the cold is a really hard thing to get used to...
It snowed yesterday, snowed and stayed for the first time in weeks - we really thought that winter seemed to be coming to an end, but yesterday it came back again - and today it was sooo beautiful... Looking out the window this morning, the courtyard in all full of fresh snow, and the trees and street out the front all white and pretty... And it was deep when we stepped out the front door this morning, there'd been something like 15cms overnight - and walking across the square to work it was cool that they hadn't thrown the grit in it yet that they normally do - and the path through was not from some artificial source - but was just there because people had walked there and everyone that came through just found it easier to follow in the footsteps that had come through before them...
It made me smile today, to see it all white and pretty and fresh - you kind of forget how white it is - when it's fresh like that... After the cars come through on the roads (not so much today as they were mostly snowed in!) and the grit gets thrown down to make it easier to walk through, it's grey and then when the days are dark and grey, it's a really grey feeling... But today, white and light and bright...
I'm glad it came today, and glad that it was such a big fall overnight and that there wasn't yet the time for it to be grey and we got to see it that way - I go home to Melbourne in a few days, just for a quick trip to pack up our apartment and put our lives into storage before heading back over here for the next 12+ months - and while I know that I'll see more snow, if not this winter (which we're no longer kidding ourselves is coming to a close) - certainly the next one but it was nice to get this fix before heading home for a couple of weeks...
I even got to make a snow angel finally (was getting worried that I'd missed my chance!!)...
It's such a foreign thing to us as Melbournians - I mean, I've made the 5 or so hour trek to Falls Creek and the shorter 2-3 hours to Mount Bulla for boarding a few times (albeit a couple of years ago now)...
But, living in it - day to day, walking through it to get to the train station, to work, and home again each day - that's something altogether different...
It creates a really alien landscape, beautiful, eerie, fresh and crisp... I love the way it makes everything lighter - and here that's a really big thing. Without it here it's very dark and grey a lot of the time... Thankfully the days are getting longer - so the sun's up before 8am and setting after 4pm these days, the darkness - much more than the cold is a really hard thing to get used to...
It snowed yesterday, snowed and stayed for the first time in weeks - we really thought that winter seemed to be coming to an end, but yesterday it came back again - and today it was sooo beautiful... Looking out the window this morning, the courtyard in all full of fresh snow, and the trees and street out the front all white and pretty... And it was deep when we stepped out the front door this morning, there'd been something like 15cms overnight - and walking across the square to work it was cool that they hadn't thrown the grit in it yet that they normally do - and the path through was not from some artificial source - but was just there because people had walked there and everyone that came through just found it easier to follow in the footsteps that had come through before them...
It made me smile today, to see it all white and pretty and fresh - you kind of forget how white it is - when it's fresh like that... After the cars come through on the roads (not so much today as they were mostly snowed in!) and the grit gets thrown down to make it easier to walk through, it's grey and then when the days are dark and grey, it's a really grey feeling... But today, white and light and bright...
I'm glad it came today, and glad that it was such a big fall overnight and that there wasn't yet the time for it to be grey and we got to see it that way - I go home to Melbourne in a few days, just for a quick trip to pack up our apartment and put our lives into storage before heading back over here for the next 12+ months - and while I know that I'll see more snow, if not this winter (which we're no longer kidding ourselves is coming to a close) - certainly the next one but it was nice to get this fix before heading home for a couple of weeks...
I even got to make a snow angel finally (was getting worried that I'd missed my chance!!)...
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