Feb 05 2010
Haiku Friday – Two Winters
Night in the country.
Peaceful, icy, crisply cold.
Moonlight shimmering.
Every once in a while, Mr. Hot will yell at me to “Come with your camera. You’ve got to see this sunset!”
I’m so NOT a fan of winter. And living my split life, I’ve noticed that winter in the country is a different animal than winter in the city. The snow blankets and muffles sounds in the country – silence lulls me to sleepiness by 7 or 8 o’clock each evening when I’m home amongst the cornfields.
Winter in the city seems harsher to me. The noise and the slush and the wind seems to batter and drive to a different tiredness. Not so much a “relaxing with a warm quilt until your eyes won’t stay open” but a “fall into bed and zonk immediately” feeling.
The romantic in me likes the first scenario – I add a comfortable chair, a roaring fireplace, a large hound dog, a glass of warmed brandy and a book to those dreams – getting up only to make my way to the four-poster bed across the room. The one with flowery, lacy bedding. When it’s time, I crawl between the covers and blissfully drift off.
The Hotfessional in me thrives on the second – sitting in bed with reading glasses perched on my nose, a glass of wine on the bedside table, cat purring and laptop humming. Pillows stacked behind my back are covered in high thread-count, stark white cases but a deep red down-filled comforter is just a quick grab away. Falling asleep with those glasses still on my face is not uncommon.
—- And there you have it. I think I’m officially two people. —-
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I am 2 people. I am the person I am when I go home to CT (grew up in a town 25 miles outside NYC) and I am the person who lives in Raleigh, NC. They are distinctly different yet oddly the same. I am still not sure which one I like better.
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Have a great weekend. You back home? I hope you made last night-J
Being two people means you get the best of both worlds.
I live in a country setting, but only 5 minutes from EVERYTHING – - and I do mean EVERYTHING: work (for both of us), the Mall, Walmart, work, 2 McDonald’s . . . so I have the best of both worlds right at home. And I love it!
Liz J in Central Illinois´s last blog ..Grace In Small Things: 5/2010
Oh, but there’s a huge difference between being able to relax and enjoy snow and having to get around and be someplace in snow! One is nice, the other sucks and turns snow into a nuisance. I much prefer the former!
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Love those pictures!
I’m a totally different person between my Colorado self and the one that goes home to the midwest to my family. And I mean more than the absence of the potty mouth…
Rachel´s last blog ..To be continued…
I know what you mean. For me it all depends on my mood. But I sure get a lot more done on a city winter night than on a country winter night!
Absolutely beautiful pictures – why aren’t you a hotfessional photographer instead of a hotfessional office ass-kicker?
Katy´s last blog ..This is What I’m Learning in College
Heh. John still falls asleep with his glasses on almost every night.
I can appreciate both scenes and the feelings that both of them inspire. Either way, they both make a person feel like cuddling up in something warm.
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What a beautiful sunset! As for the two people…yep. I can’t say I prefer to fall asleep with my glasses on my nose, but I definitely have to two different personality likes working for me…then again I think it makes me a ‘well rounded’ person! *wink* hahaha
~K
Love how the snow almost glows purple in those sunset shots!
Winter in the city is a whole different animal. There is no room for snow in the city – no physical room and no clock room. Snow slows things down, forces us to make time for things like changing from boots to shoes and picking our way around piles of plowed snow and along icy sidewalks. The city wants to be efficient and snow is not efficient.
Violet´s last blog ..Snow Plow Stories
After being in the suburbs for so many years, I’d love to switch to the country for a while. Those pictures are gorgeous… the colors, the feeling of calm and peace. Probably will have to wait until the little peeps are through school, though.
Wow–isn’t the time for you to permanently move to the city coming up very quickly? Time just flies when you fly to work every week.
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