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Ah, but how many 'minutes until frostbite', Doug? http://www.salon.com/2014/01/30/weather_forecasters_display_those_terrifyingly_low_numbers_but_is_wind_chill_even_real_partner/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow Cheers, still searing Bill > On 8 Jan 2015, at 5:59 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > From my frosty minus 18C (windchill min us 25), I fail on the empathy scale, Bill, but the passivity of constructions too) makes sense…. > > Doug >> On Jan 7, 2015, at 8:14 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> Numbers of any sort get me confused >> >> and when Celsius and Fahrenheit are involved >> >> I get even more confused. >> >> Seattle Fog 45 >> >> It has been so mild here that blossom is pink in some front gardens. >> >> Yesterday dog and I collided with walking seniors who were excited, >> >> pointing - See, the first daffodil. (just one) >> >> [Crocuses, may I ask? >> >> when do they blossom in England? >> >> The Streissguth Gardens, Capitol Hill, promise >> >> Winter Highlights: >> >> winter sweet >> >> witchhazel >> >> Tomasinianus crocus >> >> ‘hundreds of thousands of early crocus’ >> >> [One acre on a steep hillside. >> Access on foot via Blaine Steps: >> 293 steps skirt the garden and continue down to Eastlake. >> >> Watch for one of the famous Sears catalog ‘kit houses’ >> popular in Seattle in the early 1900s.] >> >> M >> >>> On Jan 7, 2015, at 10:07 PM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>> Bill Around 27 at night here as well F >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On >>> Behalf Of Bill Wootton >>> Sent: 07 January 2015 10:10 >>> To: [log in to unmask] >>> Subject: Re: There is a price >>> >>> We dream of ice and fridges, Pat. Overnight low tonight = 27. >>> >>> Bill >>> >>> >>>>> On 7 Jan 2015, at 7:29 pm, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Ha Bill this seems so far away here it is like living in a fridge >>>> -cheers P old and icy >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] >>>> On Behalf Of Bill Wootton >>>> Sent: 06 January 2015 20:12 >>>> To: [log in to unmask] >>>> Subject: There is a price >>>> >>>> There is a price >>>> >>>> You can avoid sun-sourced heat. >>>> Shut it out, the civilised way. >>>> Sit in air-conditioned rooms, >>>> in cooled car capsules, >>>> in shopping centres. >>>> >>>> And you appear to have won out. >>>> You do not sweat. You move >>>> with apparent impunity. >>>> Plants wilt outside but what >>>> do you care behind your window? >>>> >>>> Ha! How is your head >>>> the next day? Even though >>>> not a drop of alcohol has >>>> brushed your lips. Your limbs, >>>> your core, your chi, all sapped. >>>> >>>> You feel as if you have been run >>>> over by a truck. And you have. >>>> The temperature truck. >>>> Put those active >>>> plans on ice. >>>> >>>> bw > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress). > Recording Dates (Rubicon Press). > > that we are only > as we find out we are > > Charles Olson >