freezing raze there's thunder outside, vague and far away, hard and close as breathing. they predicted rain to melt the snow that's been falling and forming itself into piles that seem more permanent by the day, but it's lazy freezing rain, so it melts nothing, fires into the ground like projectiles from a thousand rifles in the hands of unseen would-be assassins who use clouds for their cover and don't know who they're trying to kill and couldn't kill them if they did. 140220 ... raze and now it's given way to more snow, falling thick and heavy and diagonal, stopping up the holes the tiny bullets made. thunder and snow and white all around. 140220 ... past the rain, falling into ice, more than we get in a month, and certainly more than we should be getting in the winter. 140220 ... raze the proper rain here came last night. it was the loud, clattering kind of rain that'll keep you up a while, but it wasn't enough to put much of a dent in all that snow. 140221 ... flowerock I live in the second raniest place in california, but we seem to be missing some rain... perhaps it has misplaced in your region, feel free to send it this way! without the freezing though, the trees here don't do well with freezing. I was born in Minnesota, but I will not live where it snows, much fun as ice fishing can be... pretty as the glittering in the sun and moon light is... snow is not for me. 140221 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Not freezing here... about plus ten around noon, with rain splashing and water sloshing everywhere. But the news assures us our "polar_vortex" will come back. It's one of those trendy words, isn't it. Vortex. Like vector. The media is trying to make cold weather sound cool. 'Tisn't "cool," it's freezing. Resist and/or kiss the puns! Organize anarchy! Embrace paradox! I am the Canadian_Winter and I like snow, but I miss the Canaduckian ducks that fly in with the spring. 140221 ... raze even my nuts are cold. (i mean walnuts. get your mind out of the gutter.) 221217 what's it to you? who go blather from