Sure, it’s cold, but really, it’s quite sunny! And autumn is wonderful! And you don’t feel the cold when it dips below minus 20. It just feels like regular old 25. And we clean our streets of snow and the schools stay open and our heating bills are reasonable. Given the circumstances.
In good company, this seems entirely credible. Back home, in my own space, I realize it is a stretch. It can get ridiculously cold here.
Still, what has become apparent is that when an outsider visits, the first topic to reach the table is Madison's weather. Carved, dissected, dressed and delivered.
I remembered this as the thermometer did an about face this morning and plummeted from somewhere in mid-fifties to a nice brisk 15 – topping 19 when I set out for the Law School. I pretty much jogged the mile, but my hair never quite recovered. It does not like it when I choose to go from shower to freezer.
night falls, snow falls
As a Wisconsinite from Northern Wi, the weather doesn't really bother me. I do, however, recall when a fellow UW Law school student had to experience his first WI winter after living in TX and CA his whole life. I had true sympathy for him - it was like he didn't know how to cope (despite long underwear, electric blankets and the like) because it was so foreign to him.
ReplyDeleteHe must have gotten over it though, he now works in Chicago! Love the snowy photo!
Your writing gives me a nostalgia for my days at the UW-Law School--in all seasons.
ReplyDeleteI was born and raised in New England and even I don't think I could handle a Wisconsin winter. We're having 70 degree weather and 50+mile an hour winds today. The world's going nuts.
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