This weeks Theme Thursday is Snow! And I figured what a great time for me to start posting TT's again. Then I realized that I live in Sunny Southern California and my experience with Snow is: well like almost no experience.
I live about 60 miles east of Los Angeles just below the Cajon Pass. So my experience is with the "wind". Everytime they say the Santa Ana's are coming, it means they are going to blow past my house, or I should say through my house, then blow down my fence or blow everything that is not attached to the ground somehow. When they say that the wind was blowing so hard that it sounded like a freight train, well that is a very familiar sound when the winds are passing through. Sometime I should try to make a tape of it. I think that if it did snow during these times then maybe that would be called a blizzard. I am not sure, but I do not think I ever want to find out either.
I do have to say that we have had it "snow" about 3 times since we moved here. The snow melts as soon as it hits the ground because our ground temperature is too warm for the snow to last. My daughters, who were still young the first time it happened, were very excited to see snow falling. By the next time it happened, it was the grandkids who were excited to see it.
I have a few experiences with snow though. I know it snows in Chicago, and door handles to cars can break off. It snows in Oklahoma, and walking on ice is very slippery and not safe, especially if one is pregnant. Good thing hubby was there to save me from a very bad fall. It snows in Las Vegas, and if you are in Vegas after a large snowfall they shut the Freeway down that lets you get home to California. That has happened to us quite a few times. Hubby loves that. It snows in the mountains that surround the valley we live in. Lots and lots of snow, they even have man-made snow up there when there is no real snow. We never go there, I have this great fear of ice. But the snow on the mountains is nice to look at.
And if I want to "see" snow during the winter months I just have to step outside to my front lawn and see this great view of Big Bear to the east (pictured above) or Mt Baldy to the north (pictured below).
So how was your "Snow Day"?Click here for more stories about "Snow".
the snow on the mountains is beautiful...and i am glad hubby was there for the fall as well. yikes. hope you have a wonderful day...and so happy to see you back on the TT list this week friend...
ReplyDeleteWelcome back, Mrs. U. The flakes are slowing coming down, as I type. I love the seasonal change and would miss it terribly.
ReplyDeleteHi Mrsupole!Nice picture of the mountain!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely fascinating. I never realised that you would be able to see snow-covered mountains in your part of California. Being able to see the snow but not having to experience it sounds like a decent kind of compromise. Happy TT
ReplyDeleteI was going to mention Big Bear... I also like heading to Palomar, but I guess that's a bit farther off.
ReplyDeleteLovely photos, Mrsupole. I am happy to see you blogging regularly once again. Happy Thursday!
ReplyDeleteWow! Two recent posts from you, Sherry. So good to read you again. About ten years ago, the Wonder Husband was trying to get out of Las Vegas when it snowed. He was on the freeway at the time and they had to turn back. Didn't last long though. Nice post.
ReplyDeleteLet me know if you get a hankering for more, we can mail you some!
ReplyDeleteHuzzah! Mrsupole's back! or ahve I been gone that long? Love th' view from your place, here. I live among the seven hills of Worcester, MA. and they don't even compare to yours! Happy TT and a big return hug :)
ReplyDeletei didnt know it snowed in Vegas! And you have wonderful views from your home. Welcome back and happy TT
ReplyDeleteI'm just south of you and we get those cross over winds here in the Temecula Valley. I can see Big Bear from my perch and it looks like they have a good dusting of snow, maybe even Idylwilde too. Big change from all those horrible fires.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back to Theme Thursday! I mostly see snow on mountain tops too - generally don't get any in Dublin :)
ReplyDeleteWe had around 20cm yesterday and the school buses were cancelled, so SNOW DAY! You can have ours. I'm tired of it already!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI was visiting one of my daughter 15 years ago at Christmas when Norton AFB was open. It was the first time I wasn't going to be in CT for Christmas and I thought I wouldn't see snow. But, on Christmas morning I was able to sit on the patio for breakfast and look at Big Bear Mtn and see snow. Now, that was not a bad way to experience snow.
ReplyDeleteHi! Mrsupole,
ReplyDeleteI'am glad that you are back, but I have been gone too!...Therefore, I'am glad that we both have returned to the TT group.
Mrsupole said,"But the snow on the mountains is nice to look at...
Right you are...Mrsupole,the snow capped mountains are beautiful!
Thanks, for sharing!
DeeDee ;-D
Hello Mrsupole!
ReplyDeleteI love your pics. What a view from your house!
I just about broke a car door handle yesterday.
Happy belated tt to you.
Welcome back! It snowed when I was in Dublin once and a friend of mine from Hawaii was fascinated by it, your post reminded me of that moment. Lovely pic of the mountains!
ReplyDeleteSnow in Vegas? We were just there hiking over Thanksgiving and the weather was perfect...mid to upper 60s and sunny. I wouldn't have been too happy with snow...
ReplyDeleteSherry you have the best of both worlds. A temperate climate and a snowscape view!
ReplyDeleteNo snow here in the dirty south. Just rain and lots of soggy ground!
ReplyDeleteYour view looks uplifting!
I love your views of snow on the mountains - I could handle that. We had just a little snow the other day - enuf to coat the ground for about 10 minutes and then it went away. Those are the snows I like. A few years ago I wished for a white Christmas and it started to snow Christmas Eve -- by Christmas Day evening we had over 2 feet. I'll never make that wish again. Ice? Oh honey you KNOW how I feel about ice. We had some the other day and I had a hair appointment -- I was a total wreck. But I remained upright, thank God. I want Spring please. Now.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back to TT then! nice pics. ?yes, you don;t deal with it much there. We have ahad a lot this year so far but it is a dry powder snow so pretty perfect in fact.
ReplyDeletethanks for the wamr wishes for my mom. she is doing really well and will be going home to continue her long road to recovery....
ReplyDeleteI was stationed out your way about an hour east of Palm Springs. The winds out there are nothing to joke around with. I remember it pushing the car all over the road.
ReplyDeleteWith that being said...the snow sucks. Well not so much the snow, but the cold. Being outside of Chicago, I know the worst is yet to come.
Wonderful to have you back. Best wishes and prayers for continued healing. Happy TT
ReplyDeleteWhen I was growing up in L.A. the only snow I saw was when we went to Big Bear and I was never there while the snow was actually coming down. I experienced my first snowfall when Hubby and I moved to KS and I was pregnant. I have a picture of me, out in the snowfall with a coat that didn't fit over my belly nor was it heavy enough. It was also about midnight.
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