Winter W's
This week I received beautiful winter scenery pictures from a client in Finland (Kiitos Terttu!). Everything was beautiful, covered in snow, white. What a contrast to our winter in Sintra! Or is it? Do we have White in our winter?
Earlier on the week the cold returned. In the morning everything was covered in frost, the green grass had a white coat of ice, heavy, bending the grass down.
Later on the day we had a hail storm. 5 minutes of large hail and everything was covered in white - the cars, the roads (yes, loads of accidents), the landscape. I rushed home (slow rush) but by the time I got a hold of my camera, it was gone. But for 5 minutes Sintra was white.
The next day everything was white again. The fog was so heavy that it felt like you were sitting on a theater stage instead of your kitchen - but a bad stage: looking out the window all you could see was white, as if someone had forgotten to paint the scenery behind the windows. It was what you call 'peasoup fog', only instead of green it was white. I went to the beach, and even the beach was white: the moon has changed and the sea is wild. The beach was full of white foam flying in the wind, getting stuck in the sand and the supporting walls.
So we do have a white winter. Brief, but white. This year it was Wednesday....
And there are other W -words in our winter, too. Tonight we are expecting winds of 100 kms/hour. And it is wet. It is the season, it is time for it, but we are all waiting for the spring.
Earlier on the week the cold returned. In the morning everything was covered in frost, the green grass had a white coat of ice, heavy, bending the grass down.
Later on the day we had a hail storm. 5 minutes of large hail and everything was covered in white - the cars, the roads (yes, loads of accidents), the landscape. I rushed home (slow rush) but by the time I got a hold of my camera, it was gone. But for 5 minutes Sintra was white.
The next day everything was white again. The fog was so heavy that it felt like you were sitting on a theater stage instead of your kitchen - but a bad stage: looking out the window all you could see was white, as if someone had forgotten to paint the scenery behind the windows. It was what you call 'peasoup fog', only instead of green it was white. I went to the beach, and even the beach was white: the moon has changed and the sea is wild. The beach was full of white foam flying in the wind, getting stuck in the sand and the supporting walls.
So we do have a white winter. Brief, but white. This year it was Wednesday....
And there are other W -words in our winter, too. Tonight we are expecting winds of 100 kms/hour. And it is wet. It is the season, it is time for it, but we are all waiting for the spring.
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