All of you out there that keep saying you hate the cold and would be happy never to see snow again...we can still be friends but secretly I will think you are slightly unhinged. Who doesn't want a little snow in their life? Oh...that would be you, you say. HMMMM Let's agree to disagree.
Don't misunderstand...I don't want a blizzard or anything but it would be thrilling to wake up to a soft, white, beautiful, first snow of the season on Christmas morning.
Some of you that have been reading my blog for awhile know that I have lived in 39 different towns between my childhood and my adult life. Those have been fairly well split into places that had snow and places that NEVER had snow. I always missed the "hope and promise of snow" in those places where short of hell freezing over were geographically incapable of having even a sprinkling of white. In all the years, we lived in Dallas, or Phoenix, I just never felt 100 percent Christmasy when it was 72 degrees or some un-winter like temp.
When I lived in Flagstaff, AZ or Grand Island, NE there was always a strong likelihood of seeing the lawn (or the garage) covered with snow on Christmas morning. Remember the picture I posted of the geese in our back yard in Grand Island. You might not of noticed but there is SNOW.
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| This is a sprinkling of snow by Nebraska standards. It's a whole bunch of geese by anyone's standards. |
Some places such as the town of Kankakee, Illinois where I spent a lot of my "waiting for Santa" years, it was hit and miss as far as White Christmases go. For whatever reason, back then, in the mid-1950's it was usually cold and snowy by December. That doesn't seem to be the case anymore.
The following picture was taken on Court Street in Kankakee during the holiday shopping season. It appeared in Time and Life magazine in January 1951. This was actually before I was born (but not by much) but you can see remnants of snow. I love this picture because the street continued to look exactly like this for all the Christmases of my childhood with the exception of the cars model years.
Thought Number Two: Taking Matters Into Our Own Hands
So here I am in Kansas City. This is one of the hit and miss states as far as snow in December goes. I suspect the way this year is unseasonably warm this is the only way to have snow on Christmas.
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