{"id":3931,"date":"2014-12-25T01:31:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T06:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allandouglas.com\/blog\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:39","slug":"white-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/white-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"White Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"
Originally published on December 25, 2010 by SimpleLifePrattle.com<\/em><\/div>\n

\"ChristmasThe house is still quiet, only the gentle crackling of the fire in the fireplace, revived from the embers of the blaze we enjoyed late into the evening as we watched Christmas movies together, and Dolly\u2019 gentle snoring disturb the silence.\u00a0 I gaze out the window at the equally still morning outside.<\/p>\n

Small white flakes are falling gentle as goose down, swirling in the occasional soft gust.\u00a0\u00a0 The tops of things and roofs are just frosted with the accumulated snow flakes, not the ground, not yet.\u00a0 A small thrill of excitement rises in my chest; we have not had a white Christmas since 1981, but it looks very promising this year.<\/p>\n

We have in fact had 3 snowfalls this year, one of them pretty heavy \u2013 heavy for us; quite minor by the standards of some others \u2013 which is unusual.\u00a0 We don\u2019t normally get snowfall until mid January or February.\u00a0 So the odds of enjoying a white Christmas where we are is slim.<\/p>\n

To find snow on Christmas day, we must pile into our truck and head up into the higher mountains.\u00a0 Chestnut and Round Mountains rarely disappoint.\u00a0 But to get up and find snow falling outside our window on Christmas morning is a rare treat indeed.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Our mountain; Piney Mountain, does not have the elevation to reach up into the usual snow lines.\u00a0 Elevation makes a marked difference in whether precipitation falls as rain or now.\u00a0 During our last snowfall I took this photo which shows how suddenly this change can come about.\u00a0 An extra 100 feet on this mountain slope changes the topography from wet with rain to snow-covered.\u00a0 It is really quite amazing, and is just one of the reasons we love living here so much.<\/p>\n

The single flakes have begun to pair up and twirl like dancers in the air, then the pairs begin to combine as the dancers become more numerous and clusters of flakes whirl and twirl; a nearly infinite barn dance in the air.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The snow begins to stick to the grass now\u2026 yes’sir, we are going to have ourselves a white Christmas for sure.<\/p>\n

I hear stirrings of wakefulness in the other rooms now.\u00a0 I lay another log on the fire and head into the kitchen to start breakfast.<\/p>\n

Merry Christmas to you and yours!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally published on December 25, 2010 by SimpleLifePrattle.com The house is still quiet, only the gentle crackling of the fire in the fireplace, revived from the embers of the blaze we enjoyed late into the evening as we watched Christmas movies together, and Dolly’ gentle snoring disturb the silence.  I gaze out the window at … Continue reading “White Christmas”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-3931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative","tag-mountain-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21493,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions\/21493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}