We've been dealing with winter weather yesterday and today. Freezing drizzle yesterday, with icy places. Snow and extremely high winds all night, and below zero temps with even lower wind chills. Not as much snow as predicted, in fact, quite light, but the wind blew a lot against garage doors and left other spots dry. The wind also helped get rid of the icy spots. Snow has stopped and now we deal with the extreme cold for a few more days.
When we got up this morning, we found we had no cable tv or internet or cellphone data. Wonderful. It is then that you realize how dependent we are for these kinds of communication. Cox has us up and running again now. Whew!
The snow stretches a great way across our country, much worse to the north of Kansas, but a large swath across the Great Plains and on to the east coast. For a short exercise which you can do today, or save until next week when the holiday tasks have been taken care of, try the following:
A. use the snow scene photo todayto do a free write. Study the photo carefully to see what it inspires, then start writing without stopping for a full 10-15 minutes. You may come up witht he bones of a winter story.
B. Snow lends itself to descriptive words and phrases. See how many you can put in a list.
C. Using some of the words and phrases in your list, try writing a winter poem, featuring snow. The beauty of it, the treacherousness, the difficulty it can cause, the emotions it brings and more.
If you're like me, you'll be staying inside all day. The small amount of snow is not so bad, but the awful wind chill will keep me in.
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