I grew up in Newport News, Virginia. We had several 4-6-inches snows and enough cold weather that we skated on the lake throughout the winter. Until last year, I had begun to feel that the weather had changed altogether. In the Charlottesville area, anyway, we had such mild winters that we barely had enough snow to help the water table. Then last year, oh my. Anyone reading who happens to live in the Charlottesville area will remember 2010 as the winter of snow. And days without electricity. If you live in the country as we do, you were stuck, quite literally.
I took this photo from my front door on the morning of February 6, 2010. Brrrrr. I don't remember whether or not this was the snow during which we lost electricity, but I do know that, while Stephen was trying to save Hemlocks (this was a heavy, wet snow), I was shoveling paths so that our Dalmatians would have a place to do their business! It was a terrible winter, something that we see in the Charlottesville every ten or fifteen years.
Fast-forward to today... Though they've closed down the Atlanta Airport, the forecast for Charlottesville is a couple inches, and I can live with that. The snow will fall, it'll be beautiful for a day and half, and then it will go away. That's the way it should be.
That's the sort of snow we had at Christmas this year, just a few short weeks ago. Just enough snow to dust the Hemlocks and give me this sort of view from my kitchen window.
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