The Soft Colors Of The Morning
By Anna
@LadyDuck (470779)
Switzerland
January 13, 2017 7:05am CST
I have been sick the last three days and I stayed in bed most of the day yesterday.
This morning, when I saw a white shade coming inside through the closed shutters, I thought that I had overslept.
I got up to look outside and everything was covered by a white mantle of snow.
Soft warm lights came from the lampposts on the main road and from the surrounding houses.
It was a magic scene, that I tried to capture in a picture. The photo is a bit "grainy" because I have not opened the window glass, but it gives an idea.
Did you also get snow during the night?
Right now the sun is shining, the pure white of the snow almost hurts the eyes.
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@Marilynda1225 (82582)
• United States
13 Jan 17
Your picture looks like a Christmas card...so pretty with the newly fallen snow
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@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
26 Jan 17
@LadyDuck That is a beautiful picture- it could be on the front of a Christmas card and how lovely where you live with the soft mountains in the background. I do hope you feel better soon!
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@LadyDuck (470779)
• Switzerland
26 Jan 17
@MarymargII I feel well today, it's the first day I do not cough, it's a lovely area here.
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
13 Jan 17
We had snow during the night last night too. It is beautiful first thing in the morning before traffic and pedestrians mess it all up. The sun came out here later in the day and thawed a lot if it but what is left will be frozen now as the temperature has dropped a lot this evening.
I hope that you will soon be up and about again and your usual self!
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
14 Jan 17
@LadyDuck Stay indoors as the cold weather will do you no good at all! Here the sun is shining this orning but it is only 1°C and I plan to stay in too. If the su pushes the temperature over 5° then I will contemplate going out mid-afternoon but well covered up as there is still the gusty wind.
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@LadyDuck (470779)
• Switzerland
14 Jan 17
@mysdianait I told my mother not to go out for any reason, I have read that yesterday Milan was covered with ice and many people have fallen. What made me smile was the news that people had to wait up to 8 hours at the ER, as this was something unusual. When my sister in law was brought with an ambulance to the ER last November she waited all the night and two days before they found an empty room.
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@ptrikha_2 (46831)
• India
10 Feb 17
Yeah that was a wonderful picture. It must have been quite cold as well!
@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
13 Jan 17
It's a stunning picture, I love it. Oddly enough this winter, so strange, the south of the US has had more snow than we have here in the Chicago area. I think we have had a total of 2 inches here. I hope you are feeling better soon.
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@LadyDuck (470779)
• Switzerland
13 Jan 17
@fishtiger58 They have cleaned the roads early in the morning, now only the private roads are still covered with snow. The teenagers of my neighbor are cleaning the private path we share. They are doing a good job.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
13 Jan 17
@LadyDuck We had an ice storm the other day it still has not melted. But at least the road are now clear.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
13 Jan 17
Beautiful photo - here it was 57 at 5:30 am so if there is snow out there it would be some kind of miracle.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
13 Jan 17
@LadyDuck The only time I ever shoveled snow was when I lived alone. That's is not my job but the snow here he uses a broom on, if it even requires that.
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@LadyDuck (470779)
• Switzerland
13 Jan 17
@AbbyGreenhill The teenagers children of the neighbor are taking care of the matter. For them everything is a game, they have called friends to help. They are doing a great job.
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@LadyDuck (470779)
• Switzerland
23 Jan 17
@Inlemay They have found 6 people alive, they are still digging. A group of Swiss firefighters has moved from Switzerland last Saturday. They are cleaning the roads and have started digging using more modern instruments. I hope they can find some people still alive.
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@LadyDuck (470779)
• Switzerland
14 Jan 17
The south of Italy is covered with snow and (or course) they are not organized to clean the roads and all the rest. It seems it's a mess down there. The passengers of the flight London-Bari have been left for 14 hours on a bus blocked on the roads of Apulia. I am not surprised, because we have been left (in our car) 12 hours on the Milano-Genova highway seven years ago during a snow storm.
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@LadyDuck (470779)
• Switzerland
14 Jan 17
@MALUSE I know we have been spoiled. Milan has become a horrible place. Yesterday almost 300 people have been rushed to the ER because of the ice on the sidewalks. When I was young, the concierges of the apartment complex were obliged to spread the salt to prevent accidents. I do not believe we could go back to Italy, I would prefer to go back to France.
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@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
13 Jan 17
Its a beautiful photo Anna. I hope you are feeling better now!
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@LadyDuck (470779)
• Switzerland
14 Jan 17
@garymarsh6 You surely picked it up off your patients, I wonder I finally picket it up from people who kissed me to wish Happy New Year. I had to go out last Monday and I met plenty of people for the first time.
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@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
14 Jan 17
@LadyDuck I have been sick this week too Anna.Horrible wretched cold. I could not go to work to spread it around. I think I picked it up off my patients.
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
13 Jan 17
I think the photo has a real Christmas card quality to it
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
14 Jan 17
Lovely photo, like a greeting card. Glad to say that, though it is very cold this Saturday morning, we have no snow. I hope that you are feeling better now.
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@miniam (9154)
• Bern, Switzerland
13 Jan 17
Hope you are feeling better,we had snow Tuesday/wednesday and again today.I do love it when it snows,everything loos so clean and peaceful, if only snow and winterwas not so cold.
When it`s cold, im nonstop sick and every single day is torture till spring or later when it starts to get warm again.
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