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Post by linda on Feb 19, 2005 23:57:04 GMT -5
Chris, How dare you post a picture of green grass--real green grass--with happy horses  It will be MONTHS before we see that. Brown--brown is the color we will be living with. Green gives us hope and lets us see the light at the end of the tunnel (winter tunnel). We deserve no hope--we are doomed to wallow in brown forever...... Linda |
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Post by Mary Ann on Feb 20, 2005 7:43:39 GMT -5
Linda, last night I believe we got something slightly worse. We call it schnay. It's a snow/rain mix, and everything's wet, cold, and sloppy.
What I really dislike about schnay is the ground and the sky are the same color, a lifeless pearl gray. It sounds sloppy, looks sloppy, and seems so much colder than a nice blanket of dry snow.
It looks like early March outside. Maybe we'll get an early spring?
I agree with Linda though, Chris; beautiful picture, so green and vibrant! I can hardly wait!
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Post by linda on Feb 20, 2005 15:03:12 GMT -5
I will have to add schnay to my snow vocabulary. It is a perfect term for everything being the same wet, gray color--very miserable--not fit for man nor beast. I don't have 400 different variations like the Eskimos--but I do use skiff, powder, corn, sleet, hail, wet--which just may get replaced by schnay--fluffy, crusty, hard crust/ice layer, and probably a few more that I can't remember right now because we have tulips and crocuses popping up through the ground. We sort of missed winter--and we are going to pay for it later. Not a good thing at all.
You can keep the schnay. I will go directly to spring.
Linda
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Post by Mary Ann on Feb 20, 2005 16:49:15 GMT -5
You have tulips and crocuses trying to come up? We don't have anything green. Nothing. It'll be weeks. |
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Post by Chrisnstar on Feb 20, 2005 18:45:31 GMT -5
No spring flowers here yet, but we do have ROBINS....
chris
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Post by tricia on Feb 21, 2005 11:21:23 GMT -5
We have robins, and my daffodils are up about 5-6 inches, some even have fat buds just waiting to burst open! The fields are hinting at turning green, but of course with all the cows and horses, the green lasts about a second before a hungry mouth snatches it up.
It is very messy here today, rainy, but it IS in the 60's.
I think spring is just around the corner. ;D
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Post by KarenN on Feb 21, 2005 11:25:24 GMT -5
78 yesterday, 70 today - robins abound, the fields are starting to green a wee bit faster than the horses can mow it down.... SPRING is definitely nearing....
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It will be MONTHS before we see that. Brown--brown is the color we will be living with. Green gives us hope and lets us see the light at the end of the tunnel (winter tunnel).
