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A day of contrasts:
Outside, snow is falling on the street beside my mobile home:
Inside, we had this delightful salad with lettuces, tomatoes, eggs, salami and a lemon dressing:
I hope all are warm, comfortable and have something nice to eat.
Hugs,
Erin and Melanie
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Let's see
Palm tree in the backround. Southern California???
With snow? More like time for vegi chili.
East of Ellay
We made the salad before it started snowing. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
North of Ellay...
Here to the North we got some hail over the past couple hours, but no snow. Not high up enough. :)
Last night was really windy though. Had one window leak around where it was set into the wall because the wind was blowing the torrent right at it. Always something, right?
but
its only half a salad! no cucumber, no onion, beans, carrot and maybe worst, no beetroot!
Podracer lives at almost sea level, on the higher ground of GOC there has been more snow but unusually its been quite frosty, something more usually pre Christmas. Its even been cold down here and there was actual snow a couple of times.
Madeline Anafrid Bell
Snowed in
Couldn't go get stuff needed for a better salad, but there is onion and carrot in that bowl! Beetroot is problematical because it dyes everything purple unless you can find white beets. They grow them around here but i never see them in the grocers. I could use turnip or jicama, I suppose.
Beans were in the meals on either side of this one. We're Arkies, so we eat a lot of beans. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Add oil
Add oil before adding beetroot and everything remains in its own color.
At least you can get salad things.
In the UK which imports most of its fruit and veg, because of bad weather in southern Europe and parts of Africa, salad things are in short supply. I usually eat loads of tomatoes but you can't get them. The World has gone mad I tell you, totally mad.
Angharad
salad things
Erin lives in California, as do I, so salad things are readily available all year.
Unlike Erin, we didn't get snow at our house in Oakland, but the mountains nearby got snow down to the 1500 foot level. Parts of Oakland higher than us got some light hail today.
While outside it looks familiar
That food inside looks yummy! But may I express my disappointment upon reading the content and realizing that it wasn't an announcement of a dark mode? /sigh At least I can still see well enough but just prefer a dark mode. I really need to dig around my car and seat cushions to find that extra $100K to get this to happen at BCTS...
That salad still looks tasty tho'.
Be well and warmest hugs!
Diana
ps OMG! You have the same flooring I had here years ago! LOL
Snow
Having shoveled out from under a nineteen-inch snowfall this week, your pictures are, in fact, a contrast.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Here in Oregon
I live in the foothills of the Coast Range, about an hour + West of Portland; elevation 675 feet. On Tuesday evening it started snowing and didn't stop until it deposited about 7 inches of the white stuff. Closed schools for the rest of the week. We're due another blast, but it depends on whose prediction you're listening to whether we'll get snow or rain at this elevation.
I had heard that there were blizzard conditions in Southern Cal. LOL
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Yeah………
It was 13 degrees when I woke up this morning, but thankfully it warmed up to 29 during the day. It’s been snowing lightly for the past five hours now, adding a fresh layer to the snow already on the ground.
All of this after spending the week in Reading, PA, where it was 70 degrees on Thursday.
Strangest winter I can remember.
D. Eden
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus
Mild winters
I'm sure you are used to slightly warmer Februaries, Erin? I read that here we have a latitude 10 degrees north of Chicago - like Winnipeg and Warsaw - but rarely see deep freeze winters, indeed this year our county has only had a brief snow flurry like the view from your window. For the last couple if years my studded cycle tyre has rested unused in the shed.
Yes that summery salad looks yummy :) and I hope your snow doesn't disrupt lives around you.
"Reach for the sun."
Winter crops
Lettuce and tomato are winter crops around here. The Tomato Festival was in January, but we do have them available most of the year. December to February, SoCal is the Salad Bowl of the country (and of Japan).
We are cooler here than an equal lattitude in western Europe would be because our ocean currents come from the north. The snow is keeping me off the roads, more because of mass stupidity than because of slippery conditions influencing my driving directly.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Starting Early
Just a couple inches of the "white death" here (Michigan thumb). We are chomping at the bit to start tomatoes and peppers in the greenhouses. When we do we will have to turn up the heat. Too early and summer salads will cost more than surf and turf. Patience
I hear you on the driving thing. Our son killed his Jeep on black ice last week. Then he sat there and watched several other drivers duplicate his maneuver. "Let's be careful out there".
Ron
Global Discombobulation!
With snow slowly creeping up the mountainside to the Hollywood sign, I can only think of the contrast with the East Coast, where the Tri-State area has seen almost no snow (knock wood).To paraphrase Henry Ford,
"New Jersey skies come in all the colors you'd like, as long as they're grey."
Love, Andrea Lena