Well. This picture doesn't really tell the whole story. In order to get the full impact, please do the following: spray yourself ever so lightly with the hose sprayer in the kitchen sink, stick your damp head in the freezer, purse your lips together and make a WHOOSH noise, sort of shake your head back and forth.
Then, if you don't have a frost free freezer, take some of the frost from the inside of the freezer and throw it on the floor and jump around so you get the illusion that the frost is blowing across the ground.
Yeah, That's what it was like today when I was driving home.
Growing up in Dodge City, my brother and sister and I would walk to school and home every day. Dad would walk to school with us, but we were on our own walking home at lunch, back to school and home after school. We lived about a mile away from Central School and could make the walk in about 10 minutes. I took 4 steps to each of my dad's and we walked no matter what the weather.
Anyway, that's just to set the stage for this...
When it would snow and my sister and I would walk together, we played this game. Not a game, exactly, but sort of. Okay, you know how the snow goes across the streets and roads in streaks? And if you are walking along, you could jump over the snow as it blows along?
Come on, people, use your imaginations. Don't make me do all the work here.
My sister and I would run along Avenue A and leap over the streaks of snow, "snow snakes" we called them. We wouldn't want to get touched by a snow snake so we'd run and scream and jump and skip. It was great!
I can't see blowing snow without thinking of snow snakes.
And walking to school with my sister.
And a life that was much simpler.
