Blanket of Snow

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Since it's warm enough that the snow is pretty much sublimating directly into vapor, I went out to assess the newly-visible garden today and found that, to my everlasting amazement, the thyme, the strawberry, and the parsley are all still alive!

Oh, I knew intellectually that snow is an insulator, but it's one thing to know something and another to see it. It was a record-breakingly freezing winter this year, and when you stepped outside it felt like nothing could survive out there.* And since snow is cold and wet, I remain skeptical about its ability to keep anything warm no matter HOW many times I go through the science.

But once again, Science shows me what's what. Gardening: teaching you practical Science since the dawn of horticulture.


*Not Californians, that's for sure.

Comments

[nobleplatypus]

Have pity for the poor Californians! Arctic blasts just knock them flat, you know.

[sunshine-shaman.livejournal.com]

Yeah , but it's a COLD 60! ;)

[baroncognito.livejournal.com]

I'll have you know that I can go around in an Indiana winter wearing shorts, short sleeves, and sandals (albeit with socks), and I was born in California and lived there almost my entire life. I did not see snow until I was 27.

I had ice crystals forming on my beard and I still didn't feel like I had to break out the pants.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. But I'm still snickering at that mashup they did of all the LA-area news stations just losing their shit because it was in the mid-40s.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

LA news stations lose their shit over any weather that varies from their deeply-held but totally unsupportable conviction that So Cal is always warm and sunny year 'round.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

The equivalent here are the people who get offended that winter exists. "It's SNOWING! In the MOUNTAINS! In WINTER! HOW DARE IT?" Dude, it does this every year.

[baroncognito.livejournal.com]

Well, those low temperatures can be dangerous. We had a banana tree that died because of an unexpected frost.