Suddenly, winter.
Actually, both yesterday and today the forecast was for "snow or rain showers" but yesterday had, by mid-morning, blue skies and fairly warm temps. Later in the day I even sat in the backyard without a jacket.
Today? Five or six inches of snow. I guess the mountain/prairie/chinook factors make weather forecasting especially hard, so people here get up in the morning prepared for just about anything.
It is lovely, mind you. The snow is wet and clings to trees and piles straight up on fences, in a Christmas card-looking way. There's no wind. I've been outside a couple times to shovel the snow.
This kind of day reminds me of the old movie Camelot starring Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave. The movie starts with Harris in the woods on a day like today, singing his heart out about how perfect Camelot is, with some reference, if I'm not mistaken, to the lovely snow. (I remember when I saw the movie those many years ago, by the way, how impressed and charmed I was. But when I viewed it a few years ago on TV, my reaction was, "This stinks." Now why is that?)
IN OTHER NEWS...What now is my bedtime reading (i.e, the book I reach for as I lie in bed, hoping to trick myself into feeling sleepy) you ask? Well, it's a beat-up paperback copy of a biography of Martin Luther with Here I Stand on the cover. It was a bestseller when published in 1950 and decades later was issued again. I like it. It's got my attention. Not only is it a good yarn, it's also important. What Luther came up with remains the main differences between Catholics and Protestants to this day.
Parenthetically, while he hid out in that castle, Luther used to beat himself up, wrestle with the Devil, get depressed, and have big time issues with constipation. He also translated the New Testament into German and wrote lots of polemical stuff. (Shows what can be accomplished when not feeling one hundred per cent...)
Actually, both yesterday and today the forecast was for "snow or rain showers" but yesterday had, by mid-morning, blue skies and fairly warm temps. Later in the day I even sat in the backyard without a jacket.
Today? Five or six inches of snow. I guess the mountain/prairie/chinook factors make weather forecasting especially hard, so people here get up in the morning prepared for just about anything.
It is lovely, mind you. The snow is wet and clings to trees and piles straight up on fences, in a Christmas card-looking way. There's no wind. I've been outside a couple times to shovel the snow.
This kind of day reminds me of the old movie Camelot starring Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave. The movie starts with Harris in the woods on a day like today, singing his heart out about how perfect Camelot is, with some reference, if I'm not mistaken, to the lovely snow. (I remember when I saw the movie those many years ago, by the way, how impressed and charmed I was. But when I viewed it a few years ago on TV, my reaction was, "This stinks." Now why is that?)
IN OTHER NEWS...What now is my bedtime reading (i.e, the book I reach for as I lie in bed, hoping to trick myself into feeling sleepy) you ask? Well, it's a beat-up paperback copy of a biography of Martin Luther with Here I Stand on the cover. It was a bestseller when published in 1950 and decades later was issued again. I like it. It's got my attention. Not only is it a good yarn, it's also important. What Luther came up with remains the main differences between Catholics and Protestants to this day.
Parenthetically, while he hid out in that castle, Luther used to beat himself up, wrestle with the Devil, get depressed, and have big time issues with constipation. He also translated the New Testament into German and wrote lots of polemical stuff. (Shows what can be accomplished when not feeling one hundred per cent...)
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