[Maladict]

At long last, I might add! With any luck it's not just a cold snap but winter itself coming into its own. There's nothing like a good long cold spell, is there? The bite in the air, the enveloping darkness, the gathering shadows, the shortening days... Some might moan and whine about it but not me. This is the way things should be. Ahh, the ground hidden under these leaves that have turned brown and sere, the bare black branches twisting up against the sky... What more could anyone ask for? Alas that I cannot draw.

[Autevielle]

Brrrrr. Waxing poetic about barren wastelands in temperatures that freeze the nose right off your face. Personally the thought of venturing out before March comes around fills me with dread. November. Brrrr.
To be fair, this is not your fault, so here you go:
Jacek Yerka, Autumn. Enjoy. I'm going to make some mulled wine to tide me over till Christmas. A couple of hectoliters should just about do it.

[Shiverdark]

Maladict I like such weather too - solid ground, frosty mornings and melancholy trees. However, I remember that 10 years ago at this time of November I travelled through the Golden Ring and there was no snow or hoarfrost and it was pretty warm. So, we may say that this winter is coming early
There is a beautiful song by the Russian band Autumn Rain Melancholy - "The Tears Of Autumn". I like the cold autumn atmosphere they created with 12 lines.

Autevielle thanks for the picture! it is cosy.

[solar prominence]

Oh... Just today I was in the Turkey. A lot of sun, green lush grass, inconceivable blue sea, lemons on the trees... Moscow met me with snow and haze. Do you mean fog? It was my first flight and this discord impressed me strongly - only three hours between the summer and the winter. Our city looks cheerlessly Spot the error!: grey sky, grey houses, naked trees.
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But there is something beautiful in this melancholy, because beauty and brightness are not synonyms. Moscow landscape forced me to think about the an eternity. But maybe these things were provoked by my unwillingness to go to the work tomorrow.
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Haze - reduced visibility in the air as a result of condensed water vapour, dust, etc., in the atmosphere
Discord - lack of agreement of harmony; strife. Syn - dissonance.

[Emerald]

Basically I like winter only the way it used to be and not the way it is now. Sun and snow, white snow not a brownish slush that only 1 min ago was a white snow.
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But sun is the major issue, actually it's absence. Somewhere in the country the snow remains white but still there is a noticeable lack of sun.
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[Irina]

Recently I caught my meaning I couldn`t mark out any season as more desired for me. Or to be more precise any month has something special and it is fine in its own way. I like November for its first snow, for the contrast we able to feel between the home warm comfort and the piercing wind outside, for reminding of approaching Christmas, for the noble beauty of bare woods, for the rare long-awaited beam of the sun. There is something mysterious and solemn in the air letting to become quiet after the summer restlessness. I'm not afraid of the bad weather outside and in general it helps to concentrate on the reading or another favorite thing. And on the other hand there is the anticipation of a miracle...Snow! Almost a new life!

[Maladict]

Shiverdark, on 07 November 2011 - 03:03 PM, said:

I like such weather too - solid ground, frosty mornings and melancholy trees.

Aye lass, that's the spirit. But it appears that Autevielle's grousing has done it. It's all sticky clay and icy mush, no snow to speak of, and if anyone can tell me what season it is supposed to be I'd be very much obliged. It's a wooden overcoat for me, chaps, and don't even say the words 'White Christmas'. It is no winter of our discontent, it is a season none can name, nor would wish to, for fear it might be construed as an invitation to stay.

[Elena]

The winter is the spirit. It's true.I like winter fot this feeling of coming Christmas and New Year. There are a lot of ideas to spend evening, when it's dark and cold outside. For instance-watching "Love actually" or "Back to the future"(one of my favorite New Year's movie), drinking Brunello or "Christmas mystery"( sort of the black tea with the spices like cinnamon,spice carnation etc).Yes, and of course the tangerines:))) So, you see,everithing is lovely. Peaceful and quite. And tomorrow have to think about the gift-list,work deadlines and traffic jam, when you'll come home from work.