It's always great to return home to Colorado, no matter where I've been traveling. This last trip look me into Indiaina for a conference plus a visit with old friends. Then, I headed East to visit family and friends. Last week, I waxed poetic about the gorgeous autumn display I savored in Indiana. Well, my visit back to Northern Virginia where I grew up and my daughter and her family live and work was also filled with color.Thanks to my travels, I think I'm filled up with Fall. Great timing, because I arrived late last night (that's why this post is delayed) and learned this morning that a new storm front is moving across the West and will hit Colorado late tonight---bringing snowy rain mix and cold temps down in 30's. I guess my instinct about Old Man Winter chasing Fall into the bushes early this year was right. All the flowers were killed off in our October 8th six inch snowfall and 16 degrees temps. Plus, all the pretty leaves started curling up and dropping to the ground. I took a good look outside this morning in the light and saw the bare tree limbs. Leaves all over the ground. And it isn't even November yet.
Guess I'd better pull my winter coat out of the closet. Are YOU ready for an early winter?
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In a word, NO! There's a reason, though. I'm a native Texan. Winter in Illinois has been one of the most challenging things I've faced about the move. I'm slowly getting acclimated, but "early" and "winter" in the same sentence still gives me shudders.
I detest winter. I need lots and lots of sunshine or I get down in the dumps. Dark comes at 5:00 or so, and I am not a morning person, consequently my sunshine is limited. We're in northeast Mississippi, which has had tons of rain this year, and that has not helped either!
Yep, I'm ready for winter. We didn't have a winter last year and from what everyone is saying, the east coast will get plenty of snow. Yeah.
Shel--Boy, I know what you mean about the Midwest. Those 15 years in Indiana were challenging, to say the least. I nearly froze to death. I'd never been so cold in my life. Back in Northern Virginia, our winters had been in the 30s, 20s sometimes, and if really cold, into teens, but rarely. Nothing had prepared me for the frigid temps in Indiana with 60 degrees below zero wind chill. That happened because those winter winds would roar off the Great Lakes down across the flat farm lands of Indiana. Brrrrrrr!
Signlady---I hear you. I'm photo-sensitive, too. That's why I can't take days and days of cloudy weather. Colorado is the ONLY place I've lived where there are so many sunny days. That really helps a lot.
Of course, that winter storm arrived last night and we woke up to 3" snow at least and still snowing. We're supposed to get TWO FEET of snow by the time this upslope storm front leaves. It will dump three feet on the High Country.
Dru---You sound like a "snow person." You should be here in Colorado right now. It's falling like mad and will accumulate nearly two feet here in Fort Collins, more in the High Country. Three feet, probably. Two day slow moving, upslope storm. Those are the ones that really dump on the Front Range.
Ooooo, don't like to hear that about the East. I was hoping to do a "snow bird" visit in the deep winter period (Jan-Mar). Hmmmmmm.
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