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| It's helpful when you can stay on the right side of the road. It wasn't alway possible. |
As I toured the Institute
grounds, the first fat flakes started to fall. I’d been warned that a
significant storm was expected at midday and would move in fast. I don’t have
studded snow tires; I don’t even have snow tires. For a few minutes, I thought
I’d left it for too late.
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| The first sign of the weather changing was the wind picking up. |
Still, Western New Yorkers
are accustomed to snow. Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse have the highest
snowfall of all American cities. Our storms are amplified by the open water of
the Great Lakes.
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| Drift ice is among my favorite things. |
Coastal Maine adds a fillip
to the experience: a fine layer of ice under its snow. The first twelve miles
of our trip was on back roads that wouldn’t see a salter or plow for a day or
so. The Mainers might have been slithering sideways on the hills in their
pickup trucks (which are notoriously bad on snow) but they were taking it in
stride. So did my little Prius.
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| Snow-covered rocks off Blueberry Hill. |
The northeast is having
its second hard winter in a row. Very few people visit Maine in January, but it
is beautiful. I no longer do much wintertime plein air work. Still, our world is lovely in the deep snow.
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| The open road doesn't look too bad, does it? But there's absolutely no traction and my poor little Prius was choosing its own route. |
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| Ah, home sweet home... |
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