Winter Blurbs
Posted By Teeni on January 31, 2009
Salt residue on the sides of the roads, like the remains of a miniature tide long gone out to sea.
Patches of ice on the road resembling the taut plastic wrap on the bowls of pudding in the fridge.
Strands of holiday lights scribbled through the bare branches of trees and shrubs in front yards, suspended in time and space.
Air so cold that you don’t want to breathe through your mouth. Instead, your nostrils get frozen in the flared position.
Sleet that falls from the sky like a plague of tiny daggers, stabbing at the exposed skin on your cheeks.
Big fluffy flakes that combine with other flakes on their descent - they land like butterfly kisses on the frozen, sleeping lawns.
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Beautifully written teeni..my nostrils felt for your nostrils! We are the polar opposite of this at present….our nostrils are flaring at the smoke from the bush fires which are destroying so many homes here. Our fan has a thermastat on it and it has not read under 28 degrees celcius in weeks!! Am not sure if it is such a good idea to have a fan which reminds one of how hot it is!!!
I’m glad you liked it. Thanks for saying so. I would gladly exchange some temperatures with you for a bit so we could each have a bit of relief.
We just had some water come in through our dining room chandelier because of ice dams on the roof. Poor hubby had to come home from work early and try to unfreeze the gutters.
lovely, you’d fit in perfectly up here in canada!!
Aw, thanks, Diva.
I was just trying to think of creative ways to describe the season without resorting to cliches. It’s not easy. 
Lovely, poetic, enchanting.
Thanks, Witchypoo!
Quite lovely!
It’s warm down here after our ice storm. We missed the worst of it.
Our niece’s hubby, Tim, has been sent to Madison County up in NW Arkansas with his Air National Guard unit to help with the cleanup there. Her dad — one of Karen’s brothers — got power back yesterday evening after being without since Tuesday. Another one of Karen’s brothers, who lives in the area Tim has been sent to, may get power back in a week or two — if they’re lucky. I spent part of yesterday patching the leakage points in my roof where it leaked when there was ice on the roof — never leaked when it was just rain or snow.
All in all, I’d rather have a little bit of global warming.
I’m with you, Mike! LOL. We just suffered through some of those ice storms so I know what they are dealing with and will keep all those people in my thoughts and prayers. It has been a tough winter this year. We had water come through our dining room light fixture, not through the roof, but from where the roof meets the house because the gutters are all dammed up with ice and the melting snow meets up with the ice at the gutter and seeps its way in sideways. We may end up just taking our gutters down - they are only trouble in the winter lately.
Oh this is lovely Teeni! What a beautiful poetic description of this winter. It’s been a rough one… I especially love the first line about the salt residue! You are a remarkable writer! I love this! This would look so cool underneath a picture of a frozen winter tree. You know how we’ve had ice storms all over and I noticed that bloggers have been taking pictures of the iced branches…..then you could frame it! Yup! That’s an awesome idea, if I do say so myself! Because you captured this winter in your words; perfectly!
Thank you!!
Hey that’s a good idea, JavaQueen. I’m not so great with the photos as most of my buddies are, but I could probably dig something up. I’ve been trying to write something like this for each season. So maybe I could make a little collage. And yeah, I liked the salt residue one too - it really does look like miniature beaches used to be there and just evaporated when the snow is gone and all that is left is sand/salt.
Brrrrr! You made ME feel cold!
LOL. Sorry about that Hay! **tosses you one of her favorite blankies**
Strands of holiday lights scribbled through the bare branches of trees and shrubs in front yards
i love that word “scribbled” - it’s perfect.
i also love all the “s” sounds in this snippet - it SOUNDS so scratchy-icy.
you are a world away teeni - i got sunburned on my HEAD today - where my hair parts - it’s been YEARS since i let THAT happen - ouch!
mwah to you in your winter wonderland X
Ah Katie (why do I always want to say that with an Irish Brogue when I talk to you?) LOL. That sunburn sounds painful. And thank you - the “scribbled” one was actually my favorite.
You just admitted that I’m not the only one who hasn’t taken down the Christmas lights yet!
Really nicely written, and yes, you did say it beautifully while also avoiding cliches. You should work for Hallmark.
LOL. I’d love to work for Hallmark. Then I could see all the Maxine cards first!!!!
oops, please fix the word “christmas”. My fingers were ahead of my brain; sorry!
Not a problem at all! Done!
I resemble that! LOL My outdoor Christmas stuff is all still out. its just too dang cold to go get it! LOL Stay warm!
Actually I don’t have Christmas lights out - but I see plenty of them still out there when I drive around the area. LOL. If I did have some out - I would just leave them until April at this point, though.
sounds like you have LOTS of snow in your area too, eh Teeni? Apparently it’s supposed to snow all next week here in sw ontario. oh my. i haven’t seen this much snow since I was wee!
Hi Jen! Oh, yikes - more snow? I don’t think I can handle any more here - the piles are already over my head! I should go out and take some pictures but it’s cold out there too! LOL. Anyway, I’ll be hoping you don’t get too much out in your way too.
It’s been like that here, too. Snow up to my knees. Today it is supposed to be 40!!! Our warming trend of 1 day. More snow is coming tomorrow.
I saw the pictures at your site - that’s what it looks like here too. Although today is slightly warmer and sunny - hopefully any melting finds its way off of our roof and not frozen into the gutter and seeping into the house.
Beautiful description!! You just made me miss winters in NY even more. Down here in tropical Madras, seasons would be just hot, hotter & hottest. We are in between the hot & hotter period now. The evenings can become pleasant. Thankfully as this is a coastal city, it cools down in the evening, especially if you go by the sea
Me and poetic have never gotten along.
Some things never change… much. 
Nice.
And, that single word response also aptly explains why I have a tough time writing eBooks. Everyone else writes a sentence or two, or a paragraph, and all I’ve got is “Nice.”
LOL. Well, I am hardly a poet. But you ARE a good writer!
And we complain about the half-dozen flakes that fall here once every two years!
Though having said that, we are supposed to get up to 8 inches (gasp!)tonight.
Most enjoyable Teeni - like your new blog design by the way.
Woah! Deep.
You want more snow? I haz a lot!
I love the new header Teeni! Come on, is that how cold it is there? I don’t think I can bear it.
awww…I love the fluffy flakes, and from now on they will always remind me of butterfly kisses!
PS: I SO know what you mean about those flared frozen nostrils…sigh…I can’t wait for Spring!
Very nice. I’ll add a few lines of my own:
crisp paper airline tickets in hand
Caribbean bound for the sugar white sand
Very nice! And I’m jealous if that is true!
Wish I could write like that, but my brother got all the poetic talent.
I wish it would snow here, it’s been in the mid sixties…all through January. Maybe February will bring us a good storm. It’s to warm for heavy coats, scarves, hats and gloves…I’m not complaining though, it’s just strange.
Arctic sleet blisters my naked flesh as I’m glued to glacial street–children shroud me in frosted pillows and giggle as I freeze to steel
Wow. I love “frosted pillows!” I definitely should have made this into a challenge for all of you. Hey Bobby, I think you may be related to Ray Bradbury. His ability to write so descriptively without the use of cliches amazes me.
Beautiful imagery. We are frying our backsides off down here, so the wintery pretty was appreciated.
Ahhh Winter. I so enjoy all that you described. Living in Texas sucks. If the heat doesn’t get you, the allergies will.
Very well said, Teeni. Makes me want to go write a poem.
It even looks like snow over here …. where am I ???
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Yep, this is the Tea Room!! Wonderful prode Teeni
“Sleet that falls from the sky like a plague of tiny daggers, stabbing at the exposed skin on your cheeks.”
I have taken the liberty of changing it to
“Sleet that falls from the sky like a plague of tiny daggers, stabbing at the exposed skin on your butt cheeks.”
Hey it hurts to MOON people in Winter!!!! So cover it back up quickly!
LOL. I love it when you get silly, Michelle. And I DO wish my Meez had a mooning action. That would be funny!
Tidlypom!
I could feel the cold through that even though it is stinking hot here !!!
Noice.
Your poem made me wish I was sitting in the front window of my childhood home watching the snow storms of days long gone. The crystallized chiming sounds of the shards of sleet as they landed upon the blankets of snow left from a previous snow storm.
Awesome, Debo! I didn’t even think of “crystallized.” Sheesh. I should have challenged you all to do this! Anyway, I loved yours!
Almost makes me want to come home to CT. I said almost….LOL:)
A poet and I didn’t even know it!
Very nice!
Excellent!
Question: did you freeze just one nostril flared?
LOL. Both! It feels funny when it happens.
My nostrils are quite frequently frozen in the flared position. But it is usually not due to the cold.
WOW. That was simply BEAUTIFUL.
i thought you were going to end this post with…
“these are a few of my favorite things!”
but well done
You are one talented woman, Teeni! I didn’t know you wrote poetry!
You never stop amazing me.
did you mention the salt stuck to the car? Enough so that one car washing wasn’t enough?
how bout frozen dog poo in the yard that’s now melting with the snow? EWWWW and who is gonna clean that up?
can we put the shovels in the shed yet???
LOL. I hear ya, DoubleJ!
I’m not quite as poetic!
It finally got below freezing here today!
Nice new look! Sorry I haven’t stopped by recently…
No worries. I’ll take you when I can get you! LOL. No pressure. I don’t always make my rounds either.
I loved it! What a portrait it paints. It went so well with my morning of a dusting of snow here.
Got a present for you at my place.
Brrr, cold times and stormy conditions! You had road salt in your town? Our transportation department couldn’t buy enough salt for our winter weather so our roads are still ice covered and frozen!
I LOVE my new 0007 MEEZ ((((((((((smile)))))))))))
Ha haaaaaaa!! How are you Teeni??
LOL on frozen flaring nostrils.
i can so relate now, we’ve been out for an hour walk in the falling snow! it’s beautiful and magical and so surreal (because it’s my first winter here), but soooooo cold!
lovely ode to the winter, it makes me want to wrap myself in a blanket now, huddled on the couch and sipping hot choco. i agree with JQ, it must be printed and framed with a nice snowy picture!
keep warm teeni!!!
Thanks Odette! That JQ is full of good ideas. I really do like that one. I’m going to wait until I get the prize I won in the last contest - a photography book - and then I will try to capture some nice photographs to use with my blurbs!
And yeah - that blanket wrapping with hot chocolate is the best way to hibernate in winter! 
Well our weather’s not quite this bad, but it’s certainly heading that way - I’m sure your observations can only gather in resonance Teeni!
It was a fun exercise to challenge myself with. I definitely can use all the practice I can get but heck, if you can’t have a little fun too, then I don’t want to do it! LOL.
Lovely imagery - it’s so funny thinking we are enjoying a long, hot summer - and you guys are getting full on winter.
Thanks, Kelly. Your descriptions of your weather helps keep me looking forward to better weather here!
These are very well done. I love the imagery. xo
Thanks! I’m getting back into the swing of things after taking a few days off for Valentine’s Day weekend. I’ll catch up with you soon!