Fresh snow is pretty and pure. Trodden snow is plain and polluted.
Right? …
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This mild winter gave us a light but wet smooch on its way out the door yesterday. …
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Even if you’re determined to stay in during a snow like Saturday’s, your apartment or house windows can persuade you otherwise. …
Going out into a blizzard can be a life-affirming experience.
It might even be once-in-a-lifetime. …
How can it be, that New Haven’s December is so warm?
Answers: Climate change. El Niño. Even the “polar vortex,” which was last harsh winter’s bogeyman, is keeping the moment’s Arctic temps confined to the Arctic. …
Like the movie, Juno the storm (a.k.a. Colbie) ended up delivering a more wholesome message than observers predicted.
Powdery, wispy and drifting…
Snow absorbs sound.
That’s one reason the world takes on a pleasing, preternatural quiet during and after snowfall. Sonic waves that would normally find ways into your ear canals never actually make it,…
There’s a new exhibit at the Yale Center for British Art which interprets artist John Constable’s cloud studies and landscape paintings by reducing them to their essential colors and basic geometric shapes.
That exhibit bears striking resemblance to New Haven …