Wednesday, March 26, 2014

A Matter of Daze

Today I am dazed and confused by the raging blizzard outside the windows of my east coast home.



Winds gusting to over 100 km/hr. The world a snowglobe being shaken by a hyper-kinetic poltergeist.


Snow is heaping in impassable drifts on the driveway as the world outside appears and disappears in swirls of white.

And yet mere days ago, on the other side of the country...


my farewell walk around the neighbourhood presented tiny daisies in green grass,


an improbable palm tree proud of its curb appeal,


streams rushing with the promise of spring,


and an elderly couple taking a leisurely stroll
 along the beach, as I basked in the warm afternoon sun.

After enjoying an unusually dry and sunny winter in Vancouver these past four months, I find I have arrived back to my east coast home in time to experience what is being described as the worst storm of the winter, and this after one of the coldest and snowiest seasons in years.

At least the wood stove keeps us feeling cozy as the old house groans and strains to withstand the force of the roaring winds, and we know that eventually spring will prevail.  Won't it??

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  1. What a welcome! Winter's last stand... hopefully :) Hang in there!

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    1. Oh, I do hope it's the last stand--otherwise it will be the last straw!
      Thanks for the encouragement. :-)

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  2. Sheesh, did you really have to head back east ? Can't you turn the wheels back and stay out west until May or June, if you really need to spend more time in the Artic... errrr, the Maritimes ? Bundle up....

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    1. A gal's gotta do what a gal's gotta do...promised to be back to babysit Dewey. As The Stones once sang it, "This Could be the Last Time"! (with any luck at all). Got my Nanook of the North duds out of mothballs at the ready.

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  3. Welcome home! Misery loves company. It is 2 AM and I am awake listening to the wind rearranging the snowdrifts.

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    1. Thanks for the much-needed laugh, right in the face of the storm. I feel that this blizzard has pretty much made up for the other 4 months of winter that I escaped.

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  4. Wow...but it does look beautiful......lovely images!

    Ruby

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    1. Can't deny that it's picturesque...especially when seen from afar! Glad the images please you, Ruby.

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  5. I'm beginning to have those same doubts. Not that it's blizzard like here (for the last few weeks, anyway) but it's still just too darn cold for any of this white stuff to melt significantly. I hope that when summer nudges her way in, she'll stay around a bit longer than usual. Despite winter overstaying her welcome, your photos are lovely.

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    1. I always figure that we're not out of the snow-filled woods until mid-April around here...but this year it could well be later with all the melting needed to clear the way, as you say. Last year we did get a longer-lasting summer so here's hoping! One thing that's interesting in this area is how spring just suddenly explodes on the scene...around June, mind you.

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  6. Lynne, console yourself with the thought that the blizzard produced some gorgeous images. AND with the thought that at least you don't have a drought like much of the rest of the globe. (Pollyana-ish, I know.)

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    1. That's certainly some fine compensation, especially coming from you, Jann! I almost didn't take any pictures of the storm but it proved too compelling to resist. Go ahead and spread that Pollyanna attitude around: the world needs more positive thinking!!!

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  7. It has been the most ghastly winter - but your blizzard photos are wonderful.

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    1. Good to have some small compensation.
      :-)

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  8. Oh dear, REALLY not what is needed when it is really April. I hope that you will soon have such a lovely Spring that this all seems like a nasty dream!

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    1. Still caught up in the nightmare, I'm afraid as another winter storm brought our little world to a standstill today. Upside: didn't have to go to work and spent the day playing in Photoshop.

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