Sepia Saturday this week- swings with snow!
On Dec. 8 it started to snow here. I loved taking pics of the first snow of winter...and I had ample opportunity.
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| Dec 8, 2017 Black Mountain NC 7 am |
But it also means that North Carolina shuts down when it snows...all the schools, the Black Mountain Center for the Arts, the Clay Studio.
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| Dec 8, 2017 Black Mountain NC 9 am |
It is a feature of our litigious society, I figure. If kids have to stand out at a bus stop on a mountain road (and some of them are very steep and curvy around here,) there's danger of a bus/car/truck sliding about and someone getting hurt, or at least very cold.
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| 12.8.17 Black Mountain NC 9 am |
So our schools all shut down at the first inkling of snow, and many times that means a decision is made at 5 a m based on a storm due at noon, and it never comes. But this time there was snow on the ground when I woke up at 7 am.
So let's go venturing into files to see more snows from the past...which is what Sepia Saturday is all about, after all!
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| 1946 my first snow in Dallas TX |
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| 1948-9 Mom shoveling snow into a pile, while cousins Claudette and Sandra try to form it into a snowman and I just watch on! Houston Texas at Gummy and Poppy's house, |
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| 1953 snow in St. Louis, our apartment on 2nd floor. |
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| St. Ann MO, probably 1956-7 |
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| One of my early snow sculptures - St. Ann MO 1956-7 |
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| 1950 Applachian snow storm Thanks to NC Expatriates for photo |
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| Appalachian Snow storm 1950 Thanks to NC Expatriates for photo |
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| My youngest son in his first snow, Lumberton, NC 1986-7 |
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| My first snow in new apartment Black Mountain NC, Nov 2016 |
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Today's quote:
"Children [...] need both windows and mirrors in
their lives: mirrors through which you can see yourself and windows through
which you can see the world," she explained. "And minority children
have not had mirrors. That has placed them at a disadvantage. If you want to
call white children majority children - [they] have had only mirrors.
That has placed them at a disadvantage also." By Lucille Clifton
