Re: [Paddlewise] Off topic--ski racks

From: Elaine Harmon <eharmon_at_cs.miami.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 00:41:22 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com wrote:

> I thought of asking our Floridian friends, Bob Denton and Sandy Kramer
> among others, but, while the rest of us are trying to remember ever
> hearing the sound of snow flakes on water, they are still trying to
> figure out what snow is. :-)

I well recall snow from my years up Nawth. The first day it snowed in Ann
Arbor, I went into the calculus class I was teaching (as a grad teaching
fellow) and was pelleted with wee snowballs by my students, gathered from
the windowsills. (I, a native Miamian, had told them that this white puffy
stuff falling from the skies was obviously an incredible myth.) It was an
enormous pleasure.

Some years later in Cleveland and around, I learned the marvelous sound
and feeling of crunchy snow underfoot, and have heard some of the variety
of snow sounds that Pwisers have mentioned lately. They are indeed lovely
to feel and hear. It seems I'm the only one who hasn't heard snow hit
water! Now I'm looking forward to that also. Thanks, guys!! e


Elaine Harmon - eilidh_at_dc.seflin.org - eharmon_at_cs.miami.edu


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