January 24, 2021 · 9:00 pm
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SUSPENDED IN TIME

My parents’ garden, taken one hour or so ago on FaceTime.

To me it is a marvel that you can be so far apart, and yet capture the snow as it is falling.

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  1. emmawoolf
    January 24, 2021 at 9:58 pm

    beautiful xx

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  3. Nose Prose
    January 25, 2021 at 1:57 am

    Like a mutual crystal ball.

    Agreed, despite our modern complaints about technology and “Zoom fatigue,” grateful to have these platforms to stay connected.

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  4. Old Herbaceous
    January 25, 2021 at 7:01 am

    How pretty! Everything looks magical under freshly fallen snow.

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  5. Robin
    January 25, 2021 at 9:31 am

    Olde Solihull. I can hear the hush. An Anglophone’s dream. Glad to see the birdfeeder(s). They’ll need the seed.

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    • ginzaintherain
      January 25, 2021 at 1:48 pm

      They spend hours watching those birds. It’s a very busy garden.

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      • Robin
        January 25, 2021 at 2:14 pm

        I can imagine. I love our birdfeeders here. I remember being in the UK and thinking that your regular ol’ backyard birds seemed jawdroppingly exotic to us. (I stop and start Escape to the Country just to ooh and ahh.) I expect if the senior Chapmans visited our feeders they’d be similarly wowed. Even your dime-a-dozen robins and ours are worlds apart. I guess the Atlantic is a bit of a bother to cross.

      • ginzaintherain
        January 25, 2021 at 4:04 pm

        No: pre – corona they were huge travellers – and my mum especially fell completely in love with Vancouver, saying she could happily live there. They loved Canada massively.

      • Robin
        January 26, 2021 at 1:53 am

        I meant the birds, actually, finding the Atlantic a bit of a bother, but chuffed to hear your parents feel that way about Vancouver and Canada. I think they’d like our Sunshine Coast, too. Next time! I’d be happy to be their guide.

  6. Pallida
    January 26, 2021 at 1:04 am

    I feel like I can smell the air in this garden.

    “Listen, the snow is falling…”

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  7. brielle87
    January 26, 2021 at 4:08 am

    I want to be there, with the snow falling all about. Simply magical.

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  8. Nelleke Oepkes aka Booknose
    January 26, 2021 at 12:51 pm

    We could use this snow here to dampen the acts of insurrection of selfish destructive hooligans against the evening shut down from 21 – 04.30 all over the Netherlands! They even attack hospitals and burn down covid testing streets. Bicycles are not safe either; heavy firework is being thrown at people doing their job.
    Compare their ‘fate’ with 90% of the world population. Put them there and see how soon they’d be crawling back.
    And all the thrillseekers and irresponsible media maddies who follow them blindly just out for kicks …
    Yes we need this snow to bury all of this and emerge chastened and grateful for our privileged life!!

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  9. Jools
    January 29, 2021 at 1:08 am

    What a lovely picture. My favourite thing about proper snow is it makes everything so quiet and still. However, Hannah & I made a really huge and wierd looking snowman by accident and he was in our front garden staring at us creepily for 3 days. We were so relieved when he melted and fell over in the night (his head came off and rolled away – scary face still intact!). More snow to come this weekend I think.

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