all hail vic

the crunch

i just thought i'd reflect on nature a bit this evening.

i just got home from a night in town. i live out of prague a (very) little way and so weather tends to be a little more effective out here because it's not as warm.

yesterday it was warm and almost all of the snow had melted out by my flat/apartment/whachuwill. the snow out here had been around since the first fall - wherein it turned to ice. but spring is coming and therefore it's going going gone. i thought to myself yesterday that it was probably the last day i'd see any snow for awhile.

i was wrong, of course, because today we got a few inches beginning in the evening.

and so as i walked back up the long hill to my flat, i decided to take it slowly, not the least because i'm having some issues with my right kuh-nee.

anyway, it was the perfect snow for a crunch. THE crunch. i absolutely love the sound of fresh snow crunching under your feet. it's spectacular. so, despite being in an urban area, i was able to marvel at the beauty of nature.

once i got to the top of the hill where my apartment building (and many others are) my senses became meditative. i slowed down significantly.

crunch.

pap.

pap.

pap. pap. pap. pap.

the snow is already melting and as it melts, it falls along the sides of the apartment buildings and hits the tin that juts out in places.

pap. pap. pap. pap. pap. pap.

crunch.

pap. pap-pap-pap.

crunch.

it was delightful. the feeling of spring was there, despite fresh snowfall.

the sense of renewal that is beginning to form in me, let alone the world at large, is one of my favorite feelings. people in the tropics miss this sort of thing. the deadly calm and emptiness of winter.

suffice it to say, i'm in a good mood this evening - not that that's rare. the world still has and always will have the ability to humble me to the maximum.

pap pap crunch.

Posted by iain at March 4, 2006 12:28 AM