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kzoopair 73M/71F
8614 posts
1/6/2015 9:43 pm
Fresh snow

It was warmer today- sixteen- but windy and snowing, and it felt colder than yesterday. It snowed fine cold powder almost all day and there's a freshness to a new snow. It covers everything in a clean new blanket and changes the look and feel of the forest. The frigid air clarifies at the same time that the snow highlights the complexity of the woods. Hiking during a snowfall is magical like the storybooks of my childhood. Now and then the wind dislodges the snow caught in the treetops and it comes showering down in a fog, stinging your face, waking you. If you walk the same trails day after day you see the changes in the forest and the meadows daily. The creek channel is getting more narrow again, the little beeches in the groves by the marsh keep their leaves through winter and each leaf is carrying a a handful of snow. The snow isn't deep enough for snowshoes and it was slippery and tough going on the hills and slopes. PD and I got winded but Gracie takes it all in stride, gliding along with her nose in the cold air, vacuuming up the scent on the wind.








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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
1/6/2015 9:58 pm

She did get a little fazed. A limb- really not much more than a stick- loaded with oak leaves had blown down in the path along the swamp. The leaves were fluttering in the wind and crackling faintly and she didn't recognize it in the new snow. She was shy of it, but she followed me instead of leading me up to it and at the last minute she was all "Oh yeah, I knew all along what that was. It's just a branch." I laughed at her and she ignored me.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
1/6/2015 11:13 pm

    Quoting  :

I have snowshoes! And skis! So no amount is too much. The young dogs plow ahead through the snow- they have the energy for it and they don't know any better. My older dogs followed me. They let me break trail with the snowshoes. They all have an annoying habit of stomping on the trailing end of skis and making me fall down. Then of course they'd all pile on me, trying to steal my hat. I had a hood with a fake fur rimmed face hole and the turds ate it off after they had knocked me down.

Seriously, unless there is something dangerous- an ongoing blizzard, ice that's too treacherous to stand up on- how could there be too much snow? You just go slower and more carefully.

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Pixie_11 51F
2594 posts
1/7/2015 3:14 am

Geeeeeezzzzz, KZ ... -8 degrees Celsius! I believe my visit will definitely be taking place in your summer time Loll ... (Never even seen sub 2 Celsius!! ) ...

I've always loved the snow. It must be the thought of it that I love, obbbbbbviously ... rather than the practicalities and truthfully, although I am madddd about our winters I have zero idea of how I'd fare in a snowy world ...

***********If you have a yen to get" Up-a-Tree," Then it's just a hop-and-a-skip to get down with Meeee !


kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
1/7/2015 8:26 am

    Quoting Pixie_11:
    Geeeeeezzzzz, KZ ... -8 degrees Celsius! I believe my visit will definitely be taking place in your summer time Loll ... (Never even seen sub 2 Celsius!! ) ...

    I've always loved the snow. It must be the thought of it that I love, obbbbbbviously ... rather than the practicalities and truthfully, although I am madddd about our winters I have zero idea of how I'd fare in a snowy world ...
Even here people gripe about it. When you have to work in it every day it's a struggle. Not that long ago people made adjustments for winter- did different work then. Now we're expected to carry on just as if it were seventy degrees. I've always liked winter but I was getting tired of fighting it too. Now that I've retired my appreciation for snow and cold is returning.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
1/7/2015 8:44 am

    Quoting mcmaniac:
    I've seen dogs jump and play in the snow, but I've never seen one lay in the snow like your one pic. Gracie must really love that snow!
Lots of dogs prefer it. Rocky used to revel in what's called the bad weather. He had a luxury suite in the garage but he'd lie in the windiest corner of the yard in a snowbank with his tail over his nose. In summer he wanted to be inside next to the air conditioner.

Gracie is one of those dogs who think: "Snow! My favorite! Rain! My favorite! Hot sunshine! My favorite!" The Tao of Gracie.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
1/7/2015 8:58 am

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She's pretty happy doing...anything. We only have to do a thing once together and she's ready to make it a tradition. She is always ready for a hike. She's always ready to play catch with her tennis ball. She's loves to wrassle..and she gives it her all.

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spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
1/7/2015 12:42 pm

I still maintain you are a good photographer!


kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
1/7/2015 3:20 pm

    Quoting spunkycumfun:
    I still maintain you are a good photographer!
Thank you Spunky! I'm glad you like them!

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
1/7/2015 6:29 pm

If I knew that I wouldn't have been stuck driving a truck for forty years, I'd have been a drug sniffing dog! Well, OK , i did some of that anyway, but I never got paid for it.

She smells things we have no idea are near- critters, other dogs, people, who has passed that way earlier, the marsh. A dog's nose is a powerful organ. they can detect illness with it, explosives, drugs....you name it!

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