So much sentimentality is hung upon the concept of a White Christmas.
Sorry, Bing, not this year in Syracuse, N.Y.
The front lawn is bare again in Syracuse, N.Y.
I did not mind at all that in the front of our house in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood, the lawn once again had returned to green.
Going, going …
OK, I will admit that at the highest points of the banks where I’d thrown the shoveled snow of several weeks back, the full melt had yet to take effect, but still. That’s just a wee pile compared to the waist-high efforts I’d stacked.
I want to take you higher. Boom chak-a-laka.
I’m quite certain this is just a short respite.
White Christmas or green where you live? Miss it or don’t care? What’s the forecast as we head to 2015?
Mark Bialczak 
Most people want a white 25th and a green 26th. We were green both days.
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At least Santa didn’t have to deal with the single plowed groove down your road this year, Cat.
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There was snow on the ground here but the temp was around or a bit above freezing. It was cloudy and wet. Nothing too exciting.
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Calm is good, Paul. 🙂
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It was exceptionally hot here, too, on Christmas morning, but besides minding the heat, I minded the nasty sinus infection these weather fluctuations brought me! I woke up Christmas morning with a raging fever and sore throat, and I still feel like doo. 😦 But I’m glad you got to see your lawn again and that you had what looked to be a lovely Christmas, my friend! 🙂
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That just sucks, Rachel. To be blunt. Mine was great, though, yes. Now Karen has a wicked cold. Bleck.
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BOO! DON’T Like. 😦 Poor Karen. Hug her and tell her I hope she feel better soon. 🙂
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Her cold is hanging on, but getting a litlte better, Rachel. 😦
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A chilling Christmas Eve day, but Christmas was fairly warm and definitely green, Chum. I do miss the snow, a lot. I hope you don’t have a ton of snow ahead of you, however…
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Probably two tons, Aud.
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I hope not…maybe it’ll help your spring golf game if it has to be, Chum.
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No snow in sight. Last Friday, we went to my husband’s aunt’s annual Christmas party in Manhattan. Saturday morning, we drove from New Jersey to Oklahoma (to see my mom, dad brothers, uncles, cousins and babies galore.) On Christmas morning, we drove to Kansas City to visit my in-laws. Tomorrow morning, I’m having coffee with a classmate from KU before, hopefully, driving to Indianapolis for a friend’s 40th. Then, it’s the second star to the right and straight on ’til morning (and back to work in New York on Monday.) As you might imagine, with 20 hours each way in ideal conditions, I’m sort of okay with green this year.
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You two are driving maniacs, Wormy, and I’m not sure I mean that in a nice way. That’s too much driving, my friend. Holy Schmoly. How can you do it? That’s incredible in a short amount of time.
When I was 25 and quite stubborn and the owner of a brand new Ford Escort, I drove it from Maryland to Florida to see my mother marry her third husband. I had my two sisters and the older one’s boyfriend in the car with me but I was too pig-headed to let him, the only other one over 17, drive. My mother Told us her exit was at mile marker 350. When we crossed from Georgia to Florida we cheered. When he fit the first mile marker and it read One, I cried.
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I don’t think I had time to look outside yesterday Mark. Cooked all morning and when Ray got here to pick up the last of the food I hit my recliner and didn’t move a muscle until late this morning when I realized I was hungry again. Still too tired to warm any leftovers up, so I ate yogurt, then banana with peanut butter, played a game of Solitaire on my eReader, and passed out again until the phone woke me up again, then the friends started coming to visit. Shopping with a friend tomorrow, then hibernating until Easter. I hope.
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Rest up, Angie, you earned it with all of the cooking and hosting. 🙂
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I cannot deny my enjoyment of these 50+ temps around this neck of the woods. 🙂 Yes, snow would have been pretty but – cold. I’ll take this global warming freaky weather, any day! LOL.
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Yes, we are the New South, Mrs. B, and loving it. 🙂
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green/brown here – 50 degrees, sunny . all fall here, ready for a bit of the white stuff. a bit. )
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Just a bit. Little bit. Then melt and warm again, Beth.
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We were supposed to get a few slushy snowflakes Christmas Eve evening, but I’m not sure they actually showed up. Either way, Christmas Day was not only green, but a bit mild with temps getting into the 50’s!
I’ve always heard the White Christmas romanticism stems from the fact that the globe was experiencing a “mini Ice Age” during the time of Dickens and Clement C. Moore in the mid 19th Century… which is where a lot of our holiday mythology comes from. May be true, may not be… but I’ve seen many more green Christmases than white!
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Living here in Syracuse, vice versa. Kind of our own snow globe.
I love your mini ice age theory, Bill. That’s too cool for school.
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Green Christmas is a tradition in western half of Washington State. One of our residents even wrote a song about it.
When we need snow, we drive to the mountains. 🙂
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Options are always good, Fannie. When we have snow, we are left with snow.
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Here in my part of Canada it was brown, we didn’t get snow till early, early this morning. But now the sun is shining so what little we got is going away. So back to brown for boxing day. The forecast is for cold, colder and coldest coming soon! Brrrrrrrr.
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Happy Boxing Day, Jackie! To the Good King Winceslaws and the Gift of Stephen. Right? And button up for the Brrrrrr.
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Mid-fifties here in San Francisco. A white Christmas is something that just doesn’t happen in this town. In fact, during the last 150 years there have been only six documented snowfall of one inch or more downtown San Francisco. The city’s all-time record snowfall occurred on February 5, 1887, when 3.7 inches were measured in the financial district, although some of the higher elevations in the city reported up to 7 inches.
(I looked it up on Google.)
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Snow? San Fran doesn’t need no stinkin’ snow. I can imagine the havoc on those hills, Doobster, even with a coating. Enjoy your temperate times, please.
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Christmas was brown here Mark until I left my dear friends’ place around 10:30pm. It had started to snow! White Christmas!
Diana xo
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See, Diana, somebody on high was looking after Calgary after all. 🙂
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A green Christmas is definitely a loss less hassle. We actually enjoyed a white Christmas for the first time in years. It just barely stopped snowing a few minutes ago. We didn’t get your amount though, only a few inches. Still beautiful!
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A few inches is a beautifully manageable amount, Me Who. Enjoy the short and sweet run up to New Year’s Day, my friend.
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I guess you know the story being out here in L.A. Yes, I’m sure after all the snow you got hit with recently, you don’t mind having a green Christmas. Let’s just hope it’s not yellow!
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You betcha, Marissa. Somebody always goes contrare to Zappa and tries to eat that …
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Oh goodness. Don’t even want to think about it!
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No white Christmas here. Of course, a green Christmas is the usual in NC. 🙂 It was a sunny, mid-60s kind of day. 😀
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Sunny, mid-60s sounds very glorious to me, Nerdy. 🙂
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Beautiful green lawn Mark! 🙂 Woke up this morning to snow, snow, and more snow. And, IT IS STILL SNOWING! I haven’t gotten my snow shovel out of my shed yet and I think I am snowed in. LOL!
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Uh-oh, PJ. Poor planning on the shovel and the shed. There, I have the title for your post about getting snowed in: The sad story of the snow shovel and the shed. 😦
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LOL!! I finally found the snow shovel a little while ago and it was in the house behind the bed in the guest room ! HAHAHA! (Porch is shoveled. :D)
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Good job, PJ!
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Where are you?
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The Four Corners in the United States.
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Wyoming?
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No, the Four Corners is where the four states, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado meet. (they all meet at the corner).
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It is the southeastern corner of Utah, the southwestern corner of Colorado, the northeastern corner of Arizona and the northwestern corner of New Mexico.
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Last caption by Sly and the Family Snow?
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I wrote it after shoveling said mounds, so, I was in a Sly mood!
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I am OK with either option, though it was nice that Christmas day was the first one this week where it wasn’t raining or foggy 🙂
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That was a great weather break, Sheena!
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It was delightfully green and in the 50s. It’s about time Global Warming arrived!
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We get things later in Syracuse and Bangor, don’t we, Austin?
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I’m fine with the warm weather…
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Me as well, my friend.
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Green. Warm. Wet. Blah. Prefer white. But I like that there was no ice or snow for people to have to drive in.
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It was easier driving for the kids to drive to our house, Colleen. I never left my recliner. 🙂 No, I moved around the house. And went outside to take pictures. But I did not get into my car. 🙂
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We have spent three days getting in and out of our car. My pedometer hasn’t reached 3000 steps a day YET. (I aim for 10.000 a day). But our car is racking/wracking (?) up the mileage!!!! So I should be one of the grateful ones for no ice and snow to drive in. 🙂
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You know that for the car at this time of the year, wracking and racking is so much better than wrecking, Colleen. 🙂
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SUCH a valid point Mark! 🙂 And here we go again for the next gathering….. yes. Another one. 🙂
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Miami’s been low 80’s day and 68 nights. But days have been still and muggy and needed the AC.
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Wow. That’s a warm holiday, Carl.
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