Sunday, November 22, 2009

Delirious!



Sunday November 22 2009

It comes - it really comes today!

The first 'real' snowstorm - more than a skiff. Small and insignificant and brief as it is, it clogs the air with fat wet flakes and leaves a solid white carpet on the ground, enough to stand up on the fence rails and drop a thick blanket on backs and butts and tails and manes and my own locks.

I'm intoxicated with the sight, and delirious with the sounds: the rubbery squeaky crackle of every footstep in the snow, the muted-desert winter-silence but for the flakes that hit my hat and jacket - fft fft fft; the cows walking down from the mountains to Oreana a day late, bawling their cantankerous opinions "Mabel - I TOLD you we should've left yesterday!"













The snow stays for a few hours, just like the clouds; then it evaporates, just like the clouds, leaving only a cold wind and a golden light over the snow-covered Owyhees up the crick, and a promise of more serious snow to come this winter.

5 comments:

  1. This is such a great story and spectacular discreption. Thank you. Love the pictures.

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  2. That first photo is sensational!

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  3. You are a sick, sick girl!!!

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  4. The photography and narration are outstanding! Makes a reader want more, more, more!!!

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  5. Awesome! Absolutely Awesome! Your photos are incredible. You capture the best of the horses - lifelike. What more can I say!

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