Paigetheoracle writes;

Living in The Highlands, I have noticed this year a phenomenon I have missed other years and that is how like the tide snow is. I bet time lapse photography would reveal the same thing, which is snow at ground level, the hills and the mountains, which recedes then approaches again but each time withdrawing further each time and at different altitudes. First the snow at ground level lays and stays, then it vanishes, reappears and rapidly melts back to slush. Next if falls but as sleet, not snow, turning to rain eventually. The tide of snow, that once blanketed the hills, now pulls back, washes forward and wakes up to Spring upon the unsuspecting world as the mountains sleep under their white covering; they too succumb eventually but less willingly to the approaching warmth of summer, some never giving in at all because of their haughty height of age and indifference to the warmth: this is so beneath them.

Paigetheoracle

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