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December 30, 2005

Snow Day

We're off in snowy, fluffy Minnesota with Noel's parents, and there is snow everywhere. Yesterday we drove up to visit his grandmother in New York Mills, and it was threatening snow the whole day. Almost as soon as we got home again the storm hit. It's a big, fluffy, picturebook snow.

New York Mills was a nice little midwestern town. Very picturesque. This is grandma's house:

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On the drive up we saw this place: the Dandy Fun Factory. I have no idea what they make there, but I have to admit it doesn't look very dandy or fun.

Noel's grandmother has a new puppy, a beagle/bulldog mix named "Butch." He has a lot of energy. We taught Butch how to sit and lie down, and not to jump on us.

As we were driving home through the farm country, we talked about how this was what Noel thought of when he thought of the midwest: roads through endless fields.

The scenery is actually a lot like where I grew up in New York, only flatter, as if somebody grabbed the edges of the world and pulled it taut.

The storm was starting to get going off in the distance: we were really lucky that we missed driving in it.

One of the things I love about small towns is the small town Christmas decorations. They don't seem as overblown and corporate as what you see in big cities, where they hired a decorator to coordinate them months in advance. And because of that they seem more sincere.

The snow continued into today (it's still snowing, in fact). Here's Noel's parents' house.

This afternoon I went out for a walk and took some pictures of the snow. It's sitting nicely on the trees.

The problem with snow is that it so rarely stays this pretty. But I figured I would enjoy it while it is here.

Posted by ayse on 12/30/05 at 2:07 PM