We usually don't get much real winter here in North Carolina but we have this year. A snow storm a week for several weeks. Some people have even bought scrapers. Others drive around with a thick blanket of snow covering their car as they peer out of a little spy hole of snow brushed from the windshield. Allowing the show to shed at will, landing where it may. Not many people get shovels. Most people leave the show until it melts which is usually quick except in real winter. Otherwise it crusts over rough and trodden when it refreezes or like this time turns into a muddy mush which then refreezes at night into a spikey minefield. At dawn I hear the high pitched squeal of neighbors spinning wheels as they exit their parking spaces. A favorite maneuver down here which can also be used at a stop sign for added drama and danger. Visualize crazy fishtailing here.
We have spent several storms in Virginia where they know about winter and show and shovels and scrapers. They scrape the roads without removing the top several inches for the most part and they don't panic. That's nice.
This is some chilly rosemary in the damp show that fell in Rocky Mount Virginia yesterday.
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