This is what I was thinking as I read. It's not so much a sound as the way it muffles other sounds. I think because it falls so softly. Not like rain. Raindrops hit and patter, lovely sounds, but snow only really makes a sound if it's more ice particles than snow. It's the quality of silence it brings and sends relief to the ears, without being a total lack of sound that would be a little maddening.
As I think you’ve already found out, smell blindness is anosmia. I didn’t know you can’t smell? I know you’ve told me Ellen Douglas lost her sense of smell when she lost her husband.
Love this and the photos! I get frustrated because I don’t have words to describe the “after-the-rain smell” I grew up with in NM. I have never smelled that smell after it rains where I live now. I always loved walking outside after it rained in Albuquerque because there was that incredible smell - the smell I can’t explain to you writing this and it’s so frustrating!
Ooooh, I bet it’s gorgeous. Maybe it’s something I’ll have to try to get out there to experience someday -- in the meantime, i hope some good, delicious words open up to you. 💚
The sound is snow is non-sound. The way snow muffles everything is one of my favorite things about it. It is a blanket of peace.
This is what I was thinking as I read. It's not so much a sound as the way it muffles other sounds. I think because it falls so softly. Not like rain. Raindrops hit and patter, lovely sounds, but snow only really makes a sound if it's more ice particles than snow. It's the quality of silence it brings and sends relief to the ears, without being a total lack of sound that would be a little maddening.
I think you’re right. Like the negative space in a painting, it gives your ears that soft relief & a time to rest. Mmmmm, so nice.
Ooh, I like that!
Mmmm ... I like this. ✌️
…the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there, and the nothing that is.
~Wallace Stevens, “The Snow Man”
Oh, that’s beautiful. Mmmmm … the nothing that is. Yes. Thanks, and thanks Wallace Stevens.
Intriguing thoughts about our human senses. Why are they so limited in one area and not the other?
Is there a word for being 'smell' blinded? I think that's what I have. Should I return the perfume samples?
As I think you’ve already found out, smell blindness is anosmia. I didn’t know you can’t smell? I know you’ve told me Ellen Douglas lost her sense of smell when she lost her husband.
Fellow Louisiana also over snow! 😂
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Love this and the photos! I get frustrated because I don’t have words to describe the “after-the-rain smell” I grew up with in NM. I have never smelled that smell after it rains where I live now. I always loved walking outside after it rained in Albuquerque because there was that incredible smell - the smell I can’t explain to you writing this and it’s so frustrating!
Ooooh, I bet it’s gorgeous. Maybe it’s something I’ll have to try to get out there to experience someday -- in the meantime, i hope some good, delicious words open up to you. 💚