Messing
About in Boats, Boots, and Byways:
Archive
of PorchPix log entry of
23 February 03
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[Read
the original tone-setting post
to this log]
Sunday-go-to-meetin'
snows
23
February 03:
I had on my Sunday-go-to-meetin' clothes and the landscape was
wearing its Sunday-go-to-meetin' snows, and some ice, too. It
took me 30 minutes to scrape the ice on the car and wait for
the defroster to get me to an acceptable range of vision for
the trip to church. Niagara Falls was as bad, and the roads
in between were nasty. The problem was a warm Saturday followed
by a cold Sunday.
In
reality, these are dead weeds stuck to the chain-link
fence on our property line. In virtual, digital fact,
these are magical ice objects stuck to the chain-link
fence on our property line. |
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Most
of the time I call this tree a swamp maple, or worse.
Today it's beautiful. I call the effect a silver thaw.
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It
took a long time to get to church. Niagara Falls was
having a bad weather day, too. This is Pierce Avenue
outside the church that I serve -- Pierce Avenue Presbyterian. |
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