{"id":1481,"date":"2014-02-16T06:24:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T11:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2014-03-30T09:30:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T13:30:12","slug":"let-it-snow-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1481","title":{"rendered":"Let It Snow (Not)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/08-Dec-09-April-011.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1480 aligncenter\" title=\"snow, writing, writer, author, mystery, suspense, reader\" alt=\"snow, writing, writer, author, mystery, suspense, reader\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/08-Dec-09-April-011.jpg?resize=446%2C334\" width=\"446\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/08-Dec-09-April-011.jpg?w=2304&amp;ssl=1 2304w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/08-Dec-09-April-011.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/08-Dec-09-April-011.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/08-Dec-09-April-011.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/08-Dec-09-April-011.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/08-Dec-09-April-011.jpg?w=1752&amp;ssl=1 1752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a>\u201c<em>Our snow was not only shaken from whitewash buckets down the sky, it came shawling out of the ground and swam and drifted out of the arms and hands and bodies of the trees; snow grew overnight on the roofs of the houses like a pure and grandfather moss, minutely white-ivied the walls and settled<\/em> . . .\u201d \u2013 Dylan Thomas<\/p>\n<p>The Central and Northeast U.S. isn\u2019t the only country hit by snowstorm after snowstorm this winter. Take a look at how Tokyo residents responded after a 10-inch blizzard\u2014its biggest blizzard in decades. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/kevintang\/tokyo-snowman\">Snow sculptures<\/a> from the land of \u201cHello Kitty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gobreck.com\/node\/1216\">Photo gallery<\/a> from the 24th Annual International Snow Sculpture\u00a0 Championships &#8211; Breckenridge, Colorado. Tokyo amateurs, be in awe!<\/p>\n<p>Have a cup of hot chocolate and let Frank sing to you. <i><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/vGRC2LYmHfU\">Let it Snow!<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Hot chocolate not warming enough? Here\u2019s a <a href=\"http:\/\/cocktails.about.com\/od\/cocktailrecipes\/r\/httdy_ht.htm\">hot toddy recipe<\/a> that calls for brandy, whiskey, or rum (whatever you have, basically) and tea. The recipe says you can skip the tea. Just so it\u2019s <i>hot<\/i>!<\/p>\n<p>Your Cryosphere Glossary from the <a href=\"http:\/\/nsidc.org\/cryosphere\/snow\/index.html\">National Snow and Ice Data Center<\/a>.\u00a0 Perfect for teachers, dads, and moms who get asked those tricky snow questions. Find out where it\u2019s snowing <i>right now<\/i> with the NSIDC \u201cnear-real-time\u201d data map.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Beck\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/artist-makes-giant-wintry-crop-circles-just-by-walking-in-the-snow\/simon-beck-snow-art2\/\">Snow Art<\/a>\u2014made by stomping around in the snow, very precisely. Not just your everyday snow angel.<\/p>\n<p>A collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/famouspoetsandpoems.com\/thematic_poems\/snow_poems.html\">Snow Poems<\/a>. I like this one by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poetrymagazine\/poem\/244420#about\">Frederick Seidel<\/a>. Good to remember when you\u2019re stuck in the snow. Six-sided, too.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Snow is what it does.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It falls and it stays and it goes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It melts and it is here somewhere.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">We all will get there.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0A recent op-ed about the incomparable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/02\/opinion\/saving-more-than-just-snow-leopards.html?hp&amp;rref=opinion&amp;_r=2\">snow leopard<\/a>, and how the big cats are saving people. She has her eye on YOU.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-admin\/snow leopard, writing, mystery, author, reader, suspense\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"snow leopard, writing, mystery, author, reader, suspense\" alt=\"snow leopard, writing, mystery, author, reader, suspense\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/201\/494186499_db05b28de8_o.jpg?resize=442%2C332\" width=\"442\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur snow was not only shaken from whitewash buckets down the sky, it came shawling out of the ground and swam and drifted out of the arms and hands and bodies of the trees; snow grew overnight on the roofs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1481\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[174,35,78],"tags":[73,94],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-draft-blog","category-real-life","category-travel","tag-nature","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-nT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}