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Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Non-Calamintha Snow
What's the Inuit word for "snow too heavy and wet to make the calamintha look pretty"?
That's the kind we had today. This isn't all that bad, but the Calaminthas need something fluffier and lighter to look their winter best. Maybe we'll get another chance later in the season, if they're not totally flattened by then.
Here's an antique video for the first snow of the season. For you folks who aren't from the Chicago area, have you ever seen it?
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Suzy Snowflake came to my house last night, early this morning, too! Heavy, wet, early season snow.
Not only have I seen that video a zillion times, Entangled - probably shown by Frazier Thomas- I sent it in a different link to my kids last week.
[Also found Hardrock, Coco and Joe]
Looking at yes - driving in - NO!
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
Carol: It sounds like half the country got snow - my mother said they got 6" in northern Illinois. We ended up with 3 or 4". The first snow is kind of like the first tomato - everybody takes pictures!
Annie: Yep, Garfield Goose is the only show where I ever saw Suzy Snowflake. I guess after Garfield Goose was retired, WGN showed it on Bozo, but that was after my kiddie video years. Somebody has remastered Suzy Snowflake; Hardrock Coco and Joe; and Frosty the Snowman and released on DVD, although I think $30 is highway robbery.
I've been living in Virginia too long - if I don't have to go anywhere when it snows, I don't go anywhere.
Yep, We got snow wed. also...4inche's...and took picture's..:D
Enjoy the Weekend!!
Cat
Lovely photos of snow on your Calamintha. I read where the Inuit don't have a bazillion names for different kinds of snow. It was something of an urban legend but a charming thought anyway. I guess we like to glorify what we consider to be pure (unspoiled) living peoples. As if we could imbue them with qualities we thought were noble.
The video was entertaining, especially to see how the lighting changed and shadows were cast by the figures. Actually nice to see something not computer generated.
Catherine: I'll be right over to look at your snow pictures! The snow was a nice surprise, but the freezing rain we got yesterday was not :-(
Ki: I did some reading about the Eskimo snow word thing, and if I understand correctly (a big if), the question of how many words Eskimos have for snow is impossible to answer because their "words" are equivalent to phrases or even sentences in English. But that only makes me wonder what the definition of "word" is, or if there even is a definition of "word" that could apply to all languages. That's an interesting idea about the motivation behind the modern myth though - I think maybe the popular perception of the noble savage came about after European settlers no longer regarded them as threatening?
I grew up with the Suzy Snowflake video! And I never noticed the shadows in the animation - now I've got to view it again through adult eyes. ;-) The other one that Annie mentioned uses the same animation technique:
Hardrock, Coco and Joe
Just a light dusting here in RI but it does look so pretty and the video sounded familiar even though I don't remember having seen it before. Hard to believe that peonies are six months past and six months forward!
That video was so sweet. It was the first bit of a Christmas mood for me this year and it just reminded me that what I was going to do today is put up some lights!
thanks for the reminder!
Layanee: Apparently Rosemary Clooney recorded a version of Suzy Snowflake, but I don't think I ever heard that one before today. Six months to peonies seems like a very long time, but if I'm lucky I'll have a snowdrop or two next month :-)
Anna Maria: Happy decorating!
Well, at least if the Northern gardeners wait 6 months they'll get to see a peony - I'd have to travel pretty far.
Did you see this one, Entangled? Someone made a YouTube of a puppet singing the Rosie Clooney version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_95kuA1JGk&feature=related
I was the oldest child and then had 4 of my own, so those WGN shows played in the background for decades of my life.
Annie
Annie, that puppet video is cute! I saw it under "related", but didn't click through before. I went around all day yesterday singing Hardrock Coco & Joe to myself ;-) Really, I did.
This was a wonderful video. I haven't seen it before so that was fun. Suzy has visited our house every day for the past week, deciding to leave several inches on Sunday.
The video makes me want to cut out paper snowflakes... I might do that today.
Oh and I signed up for the Herbarium and have my specimens from a Welsh Herbarium.
Kate: We haven't had any more snow since I wrote this post, but I think I'm going to see all I want when I go to Illinois for Christmas.
I'm so glad you signed up for Herbaria@home. I'm going to do it after the holidays. Was there anything written in Welsh on your first specimens? I hadn't considered that they might not be in English (or botanical Latin).
So far I've only encountered English - if I come across any Welsh, I'll get my uncle to tell me what it means.
It is going to be fun, I think. I have already learned about 5 different specimens. The wonderful thing, too, is that the ones I've done so far were found in the late 19th century so there is beautiful fountain pen handwriting.
That was a good Christmas present. Thank you Entangled!
Thank you very much for your comment on my blog. I wish you a Merry Christmas too, and I chose this wonderful post for it. Love your photo's!
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