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Snowglobe

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 03:16pm on 2004-01-06

I just went outside to move the vehicles from the "safe during street cleaning hours" side of the street to the "safe during rush hour" side, and hey, it's snowing ... very prettily!

Here in Union Square it's actually a kind of spectacular snow to be surprised by. It doesn't look like it'll accumulate much, if at all, but it's very snow-globe in the way it's falling and how it decorates one's field of view. Nice. Sweet, even. Actually rather Christmas-y. Ironic timing for "thirteenth day", I guess.

I should check wunderground.com to see whether the experts disagree with my two-second-eyeball-check prediction regarding accumulation. Or maybe not -- as I type this, here comes the sun (doo doo deedle doo, and I say...), so this was just a wee snowshower, timed specifically for the moment I poked my head out of doors. How nice. A little mood-lifter.

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posted by [identity profile] faireraven.livejournal.com at 12:25pm on 2004-01-06
*chuckle*

Yeah, I thought it looked like floating pollen out there for a while... You know, in may when the milk-weed is just everywhere, and floats in every direction? :)

However, you're right. it stops five minutes after it starts. At least up here it did. :)
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posted by [identity profile] juuro.livejournal.com at 12:36pm on 2004-01-06
Pollen? What I usually see during a milkweed infestation is the seed.
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floating stuff

posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 03:30am on 2004-01-07
I think the stuff in the air in May is cottonwood or quaking aspen. Milkweed happens in September, more or less, according to latitude and altitude. And it's the seeds you're probably thinking of. Damn I miss those. But milkweed doesn't flower until June, makes little pollen anyway, and the flowers attract ants, and the leaves attract monarch butterfly caterpillars, being toxic. Urgh.

But snow is snow. Think of it as you will.
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posted by [identity profile] faireraven.livejournal.com at 07:25am on 2004-01-07
I'm an engineer, not a botanist. *smirk* I'll be damned if I remember what plant is which.

I just know that there are times of year when the plant "stuff" floats and swirls around rather thickly... And yesterday just reminded me of it. :)
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posted by [identity profile] butterfluff.livejournal.com at 05:03pm on 2004-01-06
Living in a snowglobe, it's not the snowshowers I mind, it's the constant earthquakes.
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