Category Archives: winter

a warm glow.

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musician’s outdoor snowman promo –

‘playing guitars for your warmth’

tonight at the ann arbor distilling company

“music brings a warm glow to my vision,

thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.” 

– haruki murakami , author – hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world

 

 

 

february, 2019 – ann arbor, michigan, use

gettin’ jingy.

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the big guy checks out the situation.

“Groundhog found fog. New snows and blue toes.

Fine and dandy for Valentine candy.

Snow spittin’;

if you’re not mitten-smitten,

you’ll be frostbitten!

By jing-y feels spring-y.” 

― The Old Farmer’s Almanac

going south.

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snowbirds get out of michigan

and head home to the south pole 

for a bit of warmer weather.

Ann Arbor expected to be colder than South Pole on Wednesday

The South Pole in Antarctica is expected to be balmier than Ann Arbor on Wednesday, Jan. 30. The Ann Arbor area, like most of Michigan, is on track to experience a blast of bitterly cold Arctic air Wednesday that could beat temperatures down to record lows, the National Weather Service says.

As of 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, the weather service projects temperatures as low as 19 below zero Wednesday. Meanwhile, 8 degrees below zero is forecast at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, where it is summer. If the forecast proves accurate, the former low temperature record for Jan. 30, 11 degrees below zero, set in 1911, will be broken, according to data provided by University of Michigan climate research scientist Frank J. Marsik.

The National Weather Service also issued a wind chill warning to take effect at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29 through 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31. The wind child is expected to dip to between 25 and 40 degrees below zero, cold enough to cause the onset of frostbite to exposed skin in as little as 10 minutes. The governor of Michigan has declared a state of emergency.

“let it go.”
― elsa the snow queen – frozen

 

 

 

 credits: mlive.com, gus burns, national weather service, hallmark cards

cold.

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when the high temperature for the day is below zero
it’s time to come in from the cold.
“in the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.”
― ben zaronovitch

first snow.

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“he sprinkles snow like birds alighting,

it comes down like locusts settling.

the eye marvels at the beauty of its whiteness,

and the mind is amazed at its falling.” 

-ecclesiasticus

 

 

 

image credit: craftulate

another july.

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in winter enjoy.

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“in seed time learn,

in harvest teach,

in winter enjoy.”

-william blake

image credit: karen whitworth
-the light returns, winter solstice sunrise, birch forest – alaska print

fancy water.

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kinder happily samples the first batch of playground snow

it ‘tastes like fancy water.’

 

“i leaned out one last time and caught a snowflake on my tongue.

they tasted so good, so pure and so divine,

like nothing I had ever tasted from the sky. ”     

-shannon a. thompson

snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood. – andy goldsworthy

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the first sled ride of the year with a pile of my kinders.

 

rush less. play more.

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when it’s too cold

for us to go out

to play with the snow

 why not

just bring the snow in

to play with us?

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