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[greenstorm]

It's been hovering at freezing for a couple days now. These warming periods aren't unusual here, I have one just a little warmer recorded in 2019 for instance. This one, though, isn't really dipping above freezing nor below. It's hovering.

The snow gives up dense white fog. Meanwhile the top layer of snow softens, it's juicy when stepped upon but firm enough to hold shapes. Everything is water everywhere, so moist after the long dry cold, and the water is ambiguous: it shades from solid to liquid to vapour without any clear demarcation.

Comments

[yarrowkat]

that sounds really beautiful, the fog on the snow.

[greenstorm]

It felt deeply liminal. There wasn't much to see, just a suggestion of trees and white, and when I drove into town it was thick enough that I couldn't see the road even right in front of me very well. Definitely a set-apart otherworldly feeling.

[yarrowkat]

mmmm, that sounds otherworldly lovely. an entrance into faeryland.

it's been nothing but blue skies, hardly even enough clouds to make a sunset, here.

[greenstorm]

The entirety of Threshold is always liminal space, one foot in the Otherworld. It is lovely and unsettling to live in such a place.

I wish our whole region could export a couple feet of snow for you. As usual, one of us has to spare what the other needs.

[yarrowkat]

we'd happily trade for a week or two of sunshine and blue skies! I'm pretty sure everyone in New Mexico is with me on that. we're all worried about the lack of snowpack in the mountains, which are a primary water source for everyone.

lovely and unsettling indeed. i believe it.

[greenstorm]

I was worried about snowpack until late December, so there may still be hope.

[yarrowkat]

fingers crossed!