It is here

[Jacob Bugge]

[Jacob Bugge]

Ist der Schwarzwald weiss, Kurt?

[Kurt Gold]

Don't know, I don't live there.

[Jacob Bugge]

I know, Kurt, but you mentioned it recently.

No snow image?

[Kurt Gold]

No snow, no snow image.

[Nini Tjader]

You want to see snow?

You are welcome to visit my FaceBook almbum from the other day here http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=312388&id=661033372&l=5744e37e54

[tromboniator]

Alaska.

[Jacob Bugge]

Now we are talking.

Är inte skogen allra vackrast när den sover, Nini? Pure pleasure.

I believe you make everyone feel at home, Peter.

[Nini Tjader]

NO, I prefer it green and alive. I hate snow.

[Jacob Bugge]

Thaw with rain one day

Is far crueller than all

Strong winds and bigbirds.

And yet again:

It is here

[Monika Gause]

Hamburg, City

[Kurt Gold]

Is that tiny blue sky at the top of the second photo in post 31 a local weather phenomenon or a phantom?

[Jacob Bugge]

Kurt,

It is a phantom of a memory of clear weather, from before the snow started falling again, emerging from somewhere beneath the conscious level.

Monika,

So you have fine weather, too; the photo evokes a really nice feeling.

[snunicycler]

in oklahoma we just get super cold, super fast wind... and ice. it only snows like once a year here. it's nice to see all these pictures.

except last year, we had that huge blizzard on christmas eve. did anyone hear about it outside of ok? oklahoma drivers dont know how to drive on lots of snow. haha

[Steve Fairbairn]

Icelandic car bonnet.

It's been getting a bit chilly up here too but no snow to speak of yet.

[Jacob Bugge]

And what a beauty, Peter. Do you know its favourite flower?

Is that why it is called Iceland, Steve? Is it really a car bonnet, not an ice elk?

Edit: I have been unable to post earlier today. After trying a number of other things, clearing the cache made it possible.

[tromboniator]

Jacob,

Evidence is scanty, but I have reason to suspect that it is the dandelion.

A first for us, after thirty years in these parts: yesterday we saw a lynx, crossing the highway. Lots and lots of snowshoe hares for it to munch.

Steve,

One of my favorite examples of art in nature. Thank you.

Peter

Edit: Unfortunately, no photo of lynx.

[Jacob Bugge]

The Eerie (sometimes misspelt Erie) Ice House

[Jacob Bugge]

Midwinter is here.

Last night brought a full moon high over the glittering snow, at complete calm and -22.5 degrees C (-8.5 F), stars faint  in the bright clear sky.

[tromboniator]

Last night it was about -12°C. We took the dogs for a walk down by the harbor and watched the lunar eclipse from shortly after onset to totality. Unfortunately my camera malfunctioned, but I expect that there are at least 37,000,000 photos of it without mine. On the way home we saw fireworks on the hillside in celebration of the solstice. Despite the forecast, the sky was full of stars, not snowflakes.

Peter

[Jacob Bugge]

Over here we are having what everyone is wishíng for today, though some feel they are having quite enough of it.

How is it over there?

Just about back to the amounts a month ago, snowberries now seriously weighed down, yews and mock orange still bearing up.

[Steve Fairbairn]

Wet and windy up here in Reykjavík this morning but now I see it's trying to snow, albeit half-heartedly, so maybe we'll be having a white one after all!

Gleðileg jól, everybody.

Which being interpreted meaneth a very "Gladly Yule".

[Nini Tjader]

Where is "over here"?

[Jacob Bugge]

Where you and I are, Nini, with just a bridge (with an interlingual name) and some miles between us.

[Nini Tjader]

And that is more exactly? Denmark?

[tromboniator]

"Over there" where I am, the airport thermometer, a mile from me, reads 8°F (-13.3°C), mine says 3° (-16.1°C). It's another in a long series of cloudless days, not much snow this season so far. Forecast for Sunday, with informative scientific precision, is "a chance of snow."

Peter