Stories Collected While Living in France

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Spring Snow

Fountain under snow

 

 

 

For a few hours this morning we had snow

Spring snow.

Like dusting powder sugar on a cake.

 

 

 

Fountain in courtyard

 

 

 

As the minutes passed, the dusting gave way to icing.

 

 

 

Snow in provence

 

 

Snow in Provence is like having your cake and eating it too.

It might last a day or two, though today it melted away within a few hours.

Sweet but no snowman.

 

 

 

Garden chair in the snow

 

 

Watching the snowfall on the garden chair was like watching the hand of an artist painting.

Adding just the right amount of color, capturing the light, steady strokes… 

 

 

 

Courtyard, snow

 

Our courtyard became a stage, wonderland, for the red robin who dares to sing, or the doves to dine, if only for a day.

By the afternoon the stage was prepared for spring.

 

 

 

Statue in snow

 

How is it chez toi?

Comments

10 responses to “Spring Snow”

  1. Jacklynn Lantry

    Chez toi est pleine neige aussi. I hope I did not say my actual house is full of snow, lol. We are getting a “nor’easter” which means a big snowstorm. At least a foot of snow, temps in the 30’s and lots of high winds. I expect many people will lose electricity too. It is a winter wonderland and I’m lucky I am in a building that has a generator, so if the electric goes out I’ll still have power. I have a teapot steaming and a stack of magazines and books at the ready. A nor’easter, once you’re prepared, is a time for respite. You are forced to stay at home and forced to slow down.

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  2. Mardog

    Beautiful images. The quietness of snow is something i really love.

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  3. g

    I just wrote the very same thing to a friend -the quiet muffled sound of snow-I love it too!

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  4. Kathie B

    We’ve received 8.6″ of heavy, wet snow from the current storm thus far — a record for this date. Farmboy Husband had to dig a shovel-width “bunny-trail” down our (very long) driveway just to get the mail. I’m just grateful that thus far all of our utilities have remained on, and we’re well-supplied.

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  5. RebeccaNYC

    More snow here…it has snowed all day and is expected to continue all night. Despite that, the accumulation does not seem to be too bad…the roads are passable at least. New York City has had more than it’s share of spring snow this year! I love snow, but enough really is enough now…I want spring!!

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  6. Leslie in Oregon

    Beautiful spring here, with more sunshine than usual. Provence and snow sounds like Portland and snow. Growing up in Portland, I learned to crave the “real snowstorm” (even a blizzard) that never came; usually, we too were tantalized by a bit of snow that was lovely coming down but soon melted. Thank you for the lovely dose of snow, Leslie

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  7. Ali

    It seems so strange that our weather on the West Coast is milder than Provence. A very unusual year….
    Ali

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  8. Taste of France

    We saw snow on the lowest foothills of the Pyrénées and on the Black Mountains, but on the plain between them, nary a flake. It was odd, since hours before we had T-shirt weather.

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  9. Julia Thelen

    Today, I have this.☀️🌴🍹

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  10. Dd

    La petite neige in Boston, not t nor’easter we were promised.

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