OT : Re: [iris-talk] wondering

From: Paul & Yvonne Tyerman <tyerman@dynamite.com.au>

At 18:45 25/10/98 -0600, you wrote:
>From: "Linda Horth" <lhorth@rconnect.com>
>
>Just sitting wondering how it would be to garden all year round? living in
>minn. all my life, i have wondered how it would be to live where it was
>warm all the time. I wonder if I would miss the changing seasons,rite now I
>am sitting here ,watching the leaves land in the lake ,the water is so
>quiet it looks like glass, it's hard to tell where the water ends & the
>shore begins, it's really neat but sad knowing all too soon this scenery
>will be covered by blowing snow & howling wind, of course nature does give
>us a break once in awhile, those are the nites when its very quiet & the
>snowflakes as big as quarters are falling . Then there is christmas, I
>wonder how it would be without snow. Has anyone down south lived in the
>northern states & moved south ? How was it coping with the change? Perhaps
>these are just flites of fancy of an older person. But it would be
>interesting to me to hear from someone who has exchanged 4 seasons for 1
>Tom Krop.
>

Tom,
	I've always wondered what it must be like to live in places where it
snows!!!!  We have the VERY occasional flurry, but its a momentous occasion
and certainly not regular.  The idea of being snowed in and stuff like that
is totally alien to me.  I remember a message we received earlier this year
on the list that was from Duane Buell.  It contained the following passage
(Yes I saved the message... it was definitely worth saving)

	My garden usually runs about 2 to 4 degrees colder than what the weather
	stations report, and my flowers often bloom a week or two later than 
	others in close proximity. We are separated from BC by an ice field 
	that never melts, and I'm located in a valley that has a glacier
	at the head. We have ocean on the other side.

	This totally blew my mind.  The idea of a permanent ice field is
absolutely amazing.  We don't have anyh real permanent snow in Australia.
Patches remain through Summer, but there's certainly no cover

	Anyhow, just thought you might like an insight from the other end of the
world.

	Cheers		Paul Tyerman (Canberra, Australia... Zone 8)

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