17.
The air swells
too cold to taste
fills the space
with frozen rain
the sky with dirty grey
day sheds no light
on this deep dark sadness.
17. (seven lines)
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17.
The air swells
too cold to taste
fills the space
with frozen rain
the sky with dirty grey
day sheds no light
on this deep dark sadness.
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Those grey days take their toll. The photo is interesting though.
It’s hard to keep warm indoors. The temperature didn’t rise above freezing outside.
Oh, that is cold for your area. Hope you have lots of warm clothing and blankets. 🙂
We do thanks. We’re wearing a lot of them right now 🙂
We keep our house cool, so we are usually dressed in layers, and my husband often wears and looks ridiculous in a knit hat, too. 🙂
It seems perfectly normal to me that we should dress in warm clothes indoors in the winter. Some people whine if they can’t be in tee shirts all winter.
The few very warm days where it was warm enough to go out without a coat, it was still cool in the house because the heat didn’t go on. 🙂
Those warm days we were getting about 65°F in the study without lighting the stove. Now we light the stove early morning and after eight hours the temperature is only 60°F. The sun makes a huge different to us.
We have lots of windows, so when it’s sunny (in winter), I pull up the shades.
It’s more cheerful too 🙂
🌞
Too many of these days this time of year
You’re telling me.
💜💜
So much said using a few images. I loved the photograph too. This is Nitin btw, commenting from my other blog.
Thank you. I’m afraid I’m shutting down systems until the weather changes. The cold makes me sick.
I can only imagine how cold it must be where you are. I’m in a place where the temperature drops to 16 and I’m finding it cold! I guess my dreams of settling in a snow capped mountain region aren’t materialising anytime soon with my body unable to adapt to chilly weather.
It’s like anywhere. Fine if you’re rich, have a well-insulated house and the means to heat it. Still, living in a fridge has its advantages in summer 🙂
I really like that photo.
It’s not that cold here, but they are stingy with the heat, especially at night. I slept in my sleeping bag under the comforter last night. And another grey day, raining again…(K)
The photo is from last year. It’s strange but there hasn’t been so much frost this year, even though the water butts are frozen solid. Earlier in the winter we had evenings when the grass was crispy with frost though the temperatures weren’t as low as they are now. Don’t understand it.
If you’re moving about all the time, it’s okay to have the heat relatively low, but the minute you stop, the cold has a way of making itself felt pretty quickly.
I can sympathise with the sleeping bag solution. The end of my nose freezing often wakes me up. The temperature in the bedroom never gets about 45° even in the daytime at the moment.
We do usually get heat at 6 am. And off and on during the day. But rarely after 6 pm. I get it–heating costs are high. But it’s uncomfortable at times.
What are people supposed to do after 6pm? Go to bed? Go out to eat then the cinema?
It’s a mystery to me too. I’ve always got a sweatshirt on.
It’s that wealth privilege too many in our countries suffer from. They think they’re having a hard time if any limit is put on their personal comfort.