Snow day!

Neil and I romped our way through the frozen wintriness of Jackson Park, 600 wooded, ponded acres just on the south edge of Hyde Park (our neighborhood), to get in touch with the season. It’s crystalline and muffled in apparent stillness, subtle. Yet we found it conducive to plenty of antics – snowballs and tackles and whisper-ful tracking of woodpeckers. It was my first experience with an honest-to-goodness frozen pond, on which I jumped and stomped and rolled, unable to make a dent in it. This “real winter” business is, so far, quite the lovely experience:

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~ by andreakente on January 17, 2011.

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2 Responses to “Snow day!”

Never seen really snow flakes like that. Is that real?
No way ..

Marco Di Paolo (@marcodpaolo) said this on February 20, 2012 at 11:18 pm | Reply
- Sure are! That was last winter… this winter there’s no snow at all!
  
  andreakente said this on February 20, 2012 at 11:25 pm | Reply