Photo by Flickr user figleaf (hey, that’s me!) Used under a Creative Commons license.

Well, it’s certainly convenient to get one’s weather forecast on national newscasts… well, not exactly convenient as much as distracting.

The weather outside, actually, is delightful. Snow in the Puget Sound lowlands is about as common as sandstorms in Ohio so this is actually kind of a treat.

I’m reminded of my first ski trip near Wolf Creek Pass in southern Colorado. We’d intended to do backcountry camping on cross-country skis but the avalanche danger was too high to risk it. So, having made the trip (and booked rooms for a week at the Pegosa Springs Motel (the hot springs kept the open pool comfy warm even at 14 below zero) we rented downhill skis instead.

The snow, so hazardous in the back country, was transcendentally heavenly on groomed courses, even for a complete downhill novice like me. Meeting some of my companions at the bottom of a lift one point one of the more experienced skiers said “that was better than sex” and another said “totally, I mean… how can you have an eleven minute orgasm?”

I wouldn’t have gone that far but it was nice.

Well, if the snowfall here isn’t quite better than sex? It’s better than writing about it. :-) And so I’ll be on a very light posting schedule until the weather returns to our regular Seattle Rain Festival — 40 degrees and raining from October to May… which is part of why I’m able to post so much the rest of the year. :-)

More later. Hope you’re all having as much fun as I’ve been — if not outside then in bed!

(p.s. one of my off-line duties during this extended and extremely-uncharacteristic cold snap — just about 13 degrees Fahrenheit the other morning — is keeping the feeder ice-free for our resident hummingbird. I took this photo last year, I think. I’ll post new ones if I can get the little rascal to hold still long enough.)

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