Oftentimes in the winter, a hazy smog gets trapped in the valley--obscuring the sun--filling the sky with a grayish-yellow pollution. Yesterday, the online news said, "The haze that hangs over the Wasatch Front is not fog. The particulate count is high enough the air is currently what experts consider unhealthy for everyone living from the Cache Valley, to Utah County, and all points in between." Yesterday was a red air quality day (I never new such a thing existed!). No idling of cars, no burning of wood allowed. Yikes! The article I read also quoted some doctor who said that with the inversion here, it's like smoking a cigarette all day! The inversion descended upon us late last week and seems content to linger until a big storm whisks it away.
Nevertheless, during K's infrequent moments off from work, we've had fun practising our buttercups and buttered pretzels on the slopes. The smell of evergreen fills the house. Lights and pinecone garlands have been hung. Sufjan Stevens, Bright Eyes, and John Denver and the Muppets Christmas albums have been unearthed, candles have been lit in windows, layers of wool and corduroy have been donned. Now for some cookie making-excited for orange-cardamon sugar cookies and gingerbread men!
3 comments:
I feel like I keep leaving the same comments over and over, but I love this photo! Those windows are great. Is this inside your house?
Orange cardamom cookies -- yummy. I hope your baking keeps you out of that haze.
silvia--hi! my house is pretty old, i think from the 20's or maybe earlier, and it still has a lot of beautiful really old windows--i love them too! ps hope you're feeling better and so sorry you had a very sixteen candles bday!
denise--i'll try! it will definitely be better to be in a cookie haze rather than a pollution one!
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