Tag: winter
group name: mnlife
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March 13, 2008 07:31 PM EDT --
Thawing
Frozen for months
A brown duff lake now pools
Where snow once smothered the back yard
Spring water
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Slopwork
of blue denim jeans
and flannel shirts; . . . more
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February 05, 2007 10:36 AM EST --
Usually a couple of days at 35 to 40 below, this year none.
Usually 5 to 10 days in the 20 or more below , this year none.
One day approached 20 below as it was 18.8 below here.
Three or four days around . . . more
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January 25, 2007 09:53 AM EST --
It’s been so warm up here in Saint Cloud Minnesota that I decided to put up a Spring picture on my desktop.
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February 06, 2007 10:59 AM EST --
Outside the wind chill registers - 23 F (-29 C). Time to go on a picnic?
During this kind of weather the National Weather Services advises:
A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT VERY COLD AIR AND STRONG . . . more
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February 25, 2007 09:20 AM EST --
Anyone complaining in your household that they didn’t get enough snow?
Actually it’s quite nice up here in the cloud if one is retired. We only got about a foot and the dogs love it. I plowed . . . more
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January 16, 2007 12:23 AM EST --
After Falling Asleep to Silent Snow
I wake
To angry cries,
The wind’s bitter gnawing.
The cold moon gazes on the earth’s
Dark wounds.
also posted at Wild Poetry Forum
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January 09, 2007 05:51 PM EST --
Just up the road from my home there is a state wildlife management area. Motorized vehicles and horses are forbidden. In the summer the grass grows high, the mosquitoes and deer flies flourish. . . . more
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March 04, 2007 09:52 PM EST --
Many received and some accepted a rare invitation to a grand event this February.
During the arctic weather of early February, the Lake covered herself in splendor. As people returned to the shore in . . . more
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December 08, 2006 12:20 PM EST --
Each morning I leave in the dark. Each evening I return in darkness. The quick winter sun rises near the end of my bus ride to work. It sets just before I leave my office each evening. Since mid November . . . more
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January 22, 2007 11:26 PM EST --
Some of you may have seen this before, if not, enjoy!
60 above zero:
Floridians turn on the heat.
People in Minnesota plant gardens.
50 above zero:
Californians shiver uncontrollably. . . . more
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February 13, 2007 01:58 PM EST --
Where’s Spring?
Not too cold as I go outside
to talk to a friend
She’s got to go thru Kemo again
She says that she want to live
another year and a half
It’s around 15 no need for . . . more
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December 14, 2006 12:50 PM EST --
The holidays are here again. As a secularist, I've always viewed the holiday season as a time to celebrate and spend time with family. I've always enjoyed giving gifts, large meals, cider/wine . . . more
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January 06, 2007 01:09 PM EST --
The roses in January are only thoughts,
while the snow isn’t almost at all.
But the birds don’t sing their song
as the dogs bark
bird feeders are still somewhat full
not used, but there . . . more
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November 04, 2006 11:45 PM EST --
The Ojibwe taught us the name of tamarack, this most glorious herald of winter. Now a month after the hardwoods, the tamarack has turned. Nature laid down the last and the finest of her gold. After . . . more
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February 08, 2007 08:21 PM EST --
It really wouldn't take much. Your car konks out on some backroad and the drifts make sure no one will come by anytime in the next three days. You're equipped with your suburban . . . more
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December 21, 2006 10:02 AM EST --
promise of spring fire
tiny seeds sleep in the earth
welcome father sun
warm our generous mother
a slow blossoming begins
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April 15, 2008 08:22 AM EDT --
Putting away my flannel lined jeans. The flannel sheets and shirts will follow in a couple of days.
Turned off the heater.
All in all a fairly warm Winter, as the coldest it got was only one day . . . more
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November 05, 2007 12:26 PM EST --
I see some pretty pink and white flecks of stuff on the radar maps on the Weather Chanel. It seems to be bypassing the St. Cloud area, but heading down Chicago and Nashville way. So, the nice cold’s . . . more
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February 15, 2007 09:37 PM EST --
Legends and stories regarding Minnehaha Falls swirl back through time to the earliest settlers of this land. Many associate the falls with Longfellow’s famous poem “The Song of Hiawatha” . . . more
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January 31, 2006 09:16 PM EST --
my very first winter in minnesota was bleak, cold, oh so cold, dreary, cold. did i mention cold? my homesick spirits were lifted when my brother came to stay for a few months. yes, that . . . more
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