A cold front came through yesterday

[Xipe Totec]

Temps started falling to the low 50's (yea, I know. Deep South Texas. What can I tell you).

The breeze started coming from the northeast, bringing with it aromas from far, far away.

A little bit of smokiness, a little bit of mold, humidity, salt air...

Then traces of pine needles, rosemary, and other aromas that were more felt than detected.

Winter is coming to the lower Rio Grande Valley.

The skies are gray, surly, and spitting rain.

More sullen than vengeful.

A hazy shade of Winter.

[gay texan]

1. we got snow in west texas

most of it is gone

[Xipe Totec]

2. Yes, but what did it smell like?

Share your full experience.

All senses.

[gay texan]

6. my Dear Xipe Totec, i truly love your question

so i will do my best to answer it

Silence, it was truly quiet, no movement out of the Permian basin oil stuff that morning. the wind and the snow was your companion. As for smell, it was fresh bitter cold air, but not the type you hate, conversely the type you welcome.Clean, near aphrodisiac for the moment un touched.....

for the moment, you felt that all things were equal and for once squabbles didn't matter anymore.

since im really not the best at creating imagery with words, i shall let Henry Mancini fill in the gaps:

Mancini describes it better that anything i could ever type here. I felt young again.....

[LeftInTX]

7. I used to live in Wisconsin. There were certain smells associated with snow.

It would pile up and gradually melt.

I moved away from there in 1982.

Fast forward to 2012: I'm watching the movie Superfly. Scene shows snow piled up on the streets.
All of sudden outta nowhere, I can smell it melting. It was a smell that I had completely forgotten about.

Now I won't forget the smell of mountain cedar because it is fairly strong, but the smell of piled up snow melting (slush) is very subtle and I almost didn't realize it had a smell until I saw Superfly 30 yrs later.

[Xipe Totec]

8. Sun-Kissed Snow

[gay texan]

12. thats quite amazing

very nice!

[Major Nikon]

10. Once it hailed so much in El Paso it looked like snow

I had about 6" of it all over my yard and it was pea sized.

I wish I had taken a picture of it, but that was before digital cameras became popular.

[sl8]

3. Hang on to your hopes, my friend

Seasons change with the scenery

[Xipe Totec]

4. Open your other senses

The sounds, the smells, the tastes of the seasons.

We are much too focussed on vision, that we forget to appreciate the entire envelope of reality.

[LeftInTX]

5. In San Antonio we can smell the Ashe Juniper (Mountain Cedar) with cold fronts

Even though I've got Mountain Cedar in my backyard, I can't smell them unless winds come from the north.

It seems like when the weather is hot, all I can smell is asphalt.

[Xipe Totec]

11. I'm heading there tomorrow

Will be staying on the River Walk.

Looking forward to a nice enveloping experience.

[jpak]

9. I remember my first "Blue Norther" in Corpus

I watched it approach on the Weather Channel radar and went outside when it came through.

A big break from The Torrid coastal TX weather....