One final point about snow — it makes you appreciate roundness. As the snow falls, it covers the sharp edges and blunts the pointed corners. The world becomes a smoother, more rotund place. Plumpness is accentuated, and is oddly pleasing. World Of Black And White World Of Black And White (II) World Of Black And [...]
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World Of Black And White (V)
Posted in Ohio, weather, tagged New Albany, Ohio, Photography, Snow, weather, Winter on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
World Of Black And White (IV)
Posted in Art, Ohio, weather, tagged Art, Jackson Pollock, New Albany, Ohio, Photography, Snow, weather, Winter on February 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The black asphalt walking path around the Yantis Loop is like a dark canvas waiting for the artistic touch of snowflakes. Typically the snowfall will simply drop a white blanket that covers everything, but in some spots, where trees catch a few flakes, the path will look like a monochromatic, negative image of a drip [...]
World Of Black And White (III)
Posted in Ohio, weather, tagged New Albany, Ohio, Photography, Snow, weather, Winter on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Snow inevitably find a place to land, and when it does it leaves everyday objects limned in white. Often the white highlighting reveals delicate beauty that is just waiting to be appreciated by an attentive passerby. I like the gentle arcs the snowfall traced on these pine tree branches, leaving them looking like outstretched arms [...]
World Of Black And White (II)
Posted in Ohio, weather, tagged New Albany, Ohio, Photography, Snow, weather, Winter on February 11, 2012 | 5 Comments »
The falling snow covers the individual needles and leaves of plants and bushes. In the process, it brings out broad, previously unnoticed outlines and patterns and leaves them etched sharply against the plant’s dark backdrop. In the case of this evergreen shrub, the result looked oddly like chicken feet. World Of Black And White
World Of Black And White
Posted in Ohio, weather, tagged New Albany, Ohio, Photography, Snow, weather, Winter on February 11, 2012 | 5 Comments »
During an Ohio winter, when the snow falls and the temperature plummets and clouds fill the sky, everything seems drained of color and stripped down to black and white. I like it when that happens because you suddenly notice things about the structure of the world around you that, perhaps, you didn’t fully appreciate when [...]
The Blizzard Of ’78 At Ohio State
Posted in College, Columbus, Ohio, weather, tagged Blizzard of 1978, College, Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State University, weather, Winter on January 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I was reminded today of the Great Blizzard of 1978. It was a devastating Storm of the Century, but I remember it fondly — and, I suspect, other Ohio State students of that era do as well. The Great Blizzard struck on January 26 and 27, 1978. It blanketed Ohio with huge amounts of snow, [...]
The Winter Fat-Burning Workout
Posted in Humor, weather, tagged Exercise, Humor, Shoveling Snow, weather, weight loss, Winter on January 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
We’re all eager to shed some of those lingering holiday pig-out pounds. The best way to achieve your goal is not to go to your health club or workout facility, but to head out into the Great White North, where there are plenty of ways to lose that weight and tone your flabby carcass. The [...]
Snow On Pine
Posted in Columbus, Ohio, weather, tagged Columbus, New Albany, Ohio, Photography, sports, weather, Winter on January 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday morning the snow was still fresh when Penny and I took our walk. We passed one pine tree where the snowflakes had been caught by the clusters of pine needles like a baseball is caught by a catcher’s mitt. It looked like ice cream cones or cotton candy. The snow was so new, and [...]
Frost-Covered Sunrise, New Albany, January 15
Posted in Columbus, Ohio, weather, tagged Columbus, New Albany, Ohio, Photography, Sunrises, weather, Winter on January 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »
It stopped snowing yesterday, the sky cleared, and of course the temperature dropped. This morning it was frigid. On our morning walk we noticed that everything was covered with a delicate layer of frost. On this little tree, the coating of frost looked like fine white hairs in the refracted light of the sunrise.
Adrift Against The Fence Line
Posted in Columbus, Ohio, weather, tagged Columbus, Fence, Ohio, Photography, Snow, weather, Winter on January 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
There really wasn’t a sunrise this morning. It’s still snowing, and the sky was gray and heavy with clouds. The light was filtered, leaving the snow-covered landscape a study in white, gray, and black. Along the Yantis Loop in New Albany, the wind had done its work, sculpting the drifted snowbank into a delicate, curving [...]
When Darkness Season Falls
Posted in Columbus, Ohio, weather, tagged Columbus, Darkness, depression, midwest, Ohio, Seasonal Affective Disorder, The Sopranos, weather, Winter on December 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Some people celebrate the extra hour of sleep we gain when we “fall back” every autumn. Other people dread that day, because the simple act of turning back the clocks ushers in a season of seemingly constant darkness. It’s dark when we get up in the morning, dark when we drive to work, and dark [...]
S.A.D. Dance
Posted in Humor, Ohio, weather, tagged Humor, Mental Health, midwest, Native Americans, Ohio, S.A.D., Seasonal Affective Disorder, weather, Winter on February 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is the time of year when everyone in the Midwest tries to figure out whether they have Seasonal Affective Disorder — S.A.D. for short. S.A.D. is a condition that is associated with the winter. The symptoms will sound familiar to anyone who has experienced a Midwest winter: weight gain, depression, increased sleep, lack of [...]
The Last Snow — For Now
Posted in Columbus, weather, tagged Columbus, Snow, spring, weather, Winter on February 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It has been unseasonably warm here in Columbus. Today the temperature reached the 60s and it was delightful to walk around outside without a heavy coat. As a result, for the first time in weeks we’ve seen grass that has a slight green cast. Even though it is still mid-February, and the rational mind knows [...]
Another Reason To Hate Freezing Rain
Posted in Columbus, weather, tagged Columbus, Freezing Rain, weather, Winter on February 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Is power outages. We are having one tonight as we weather the latest Winter Storm of the Century. It has been cold and raining steadily for hours, and everything outside is encased in ice. Just as I was going to watch the Illinois-Penn State game, the lights flickered briefly, then died. Obviously, the weight of [...]
Freezing Rain Is The Worst
Posted in Columbus, Penny, weather, tagged Columbus, Freezing Rain, Penny, Sleet, Snow, weather, Winter, Winter Driving on February 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I looked out the windows, saw the telltale gleaming shine on the driveway and road, and felt my heart sink. Of all of the crappy meteorological phenomena we encounter during a typical Midwestern winter, freezing rain is — by far — the worst. Snowstorms are inconvenient, but you quickly adapt to driving through [...]
