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Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Snow, graves and a poet
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:55:50 -0500
 From the Independent, March 20, 2000
<http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html>

According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic 
research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years 
winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event".

"Children just aren't going to know what snow is," he said.

Chuck Norcutt :-)


On 2/6/2012 7:05 PM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
> But Chris... I thought you never got snow.  ;o)
>
> On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Chuck Norcutt<
> chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
>> The snow is pretty... but I'm glad I'm not in it.  :-)
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> On 2/5/2012 11:02 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
>>> We had a fairly heavy fall of snow last night and it has prompted me to
>> get out and take some photos:
>>>
>>> http://images.threeshoes.biz/photos/i-PZFfLVf/0/M/i-PZFfLVf-M.jpg
>>>
>>> The first 4 are of my street and my house; the orange cast is from the
>> street lights as it was nearly 1100 when I decided to go out and see the
>> scene.
>>>
>>> The following few shots are from a nearby hamlet called Cockayne Hatley,
>> St John's Church and graveyard where we went for a walk in the snow.  The
>> church is quite a handsome one, especially outlined with snow, but the
>> graveyard contains the gravestone of William Ernest Henley.  I didn't
>> really know of him until I first found the grave some years ago, but he has
>> written some well-known poems, including "Invictus".
>>>
>>> The poem on his gravestone (also that of his daughter and of his wife)
>> goes,
>>>
>>> “So be my passing
>>> My task accomplished and the long day done
>>> My wages taken, and in my heart
>>> Some late lark singing
>>> Let me be gathered in the quiet west
>>> The sundown splendid and serene, Death.”
>>>
>>> More of his poems can be found,
>> http://theotherpages.org/poems/henley01.html
>>>
>>> The propellor-shaped slate is the memorial to the crew of a Liberator
>> that crashed near the graveyard; a training accident after the end of the
>> Second World War.
>>>
>>> All in all, it's a thought-provoking place, especially in the quiet of a
>> snowy Sunday morning.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>
>>>
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