Falling in love again

Jan 07, 2010 10:49

So me and Oxford... I don't know, the love was waning. Not gone, you understand, but I was kind of "yeah... there's love, but I could fall in love with another city, you know?"

Then, like a desperate woman who won't resort to stalking, Oxford seduced me back. And what did she wear to win my heart? She wore... snow.

Yesterday I was sitting with Betty and suddenly looked out the window. And it was snowing hard. I freaked out a bit, never having driven in snow before, and got back home as quick as possible. I got home at 4:30pm, and then it snowed until 2pm today. Every school in Oxfordshire is closed, most of the shops, and Tesco has had an 80% rise in sales since yesterday. Only buses down main roads are running, and most people are just staying home to wait it out. Not me.

The fly in the pretty snowy ointment was that my film camera is broken, and I dropped the digi on Saturday and broke that too. So I'm living in snow for the first time in my life, and have NO WAY to record it.

So this morning I dressed just about everything I own, waded through a foot of snow to the main road, bussed into Oxford and bought a camera. Then I walked around for four hours, photographing pretty snow. (173 photos since 10am.)

And all day, as I slipped and floundered through knee-high snow like a delirious joyful porpoise, two things were going through my head; Bjork's 'State of Emergency' and Robert Frost's "The woods are lovely, dark and deep..."

So, to begin... a snowfro!



South Parks Rd:


Bridge of Sighs:



Radcliffe Square



The Radcliffe Camera:



Magdalen Tower, The High





Christ Church meadow, vista upon vista of snowy trees and frozen water...







The Martyrs' Memorial





Our street!


snow, oxford

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