Word: snow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cole of the University of Colorado used tree rings from hundreds of sites to see how El Nino affected North America in the past. Before 1920, they found, El Nino appears to have affected a much larger region of the U.S. than it does today, channeling winter rain and snow all the way up into the Great Lakes and Great Plains. Afterward, however, its sphere of influence retreated to northern Mexico and the American Southwest. Why the shift? It may be, Cole suggests, that El Nino is overlaid on a different climate cycle that is even more important...
This is a summer village mainly, and it is unusual to see lights in the houses after the fall has come and gone. But on this winter weekend, perhaps because of the new snow, people have come back, and the windows of the houses beam. I am accustomed to walking the length of the street after dinner in near total darkness, so it makes for a happy surprise, this sudden brightening. In the dead black cold of night, the windows seem to shiver with gold and amber--strong and beautiful assertions of the light...
...course, I really could be anywhere, at any time. I could be a traveler in 19th century Russia, for instance, tromping from village to village on some unspecified romantic errand, crushing the thick-caked snow under my boots and taking courage from the lights of the candles in the cottages, if you catch my drift. Winter lights have much the same power the world over...
...public display. At his home in Menlo Park, N.J., he created the world's first showplace for electric light. Crowds of reporters and others would trudge up a hill to see lampposts, set 50 ft. apart and crowned with helmet-shaped glass bulbs, cast light over bare trees and snow-dusted fields...
...bring you greetings from the long ago and our first snow together. Our eyes watered and our lips turned blue, but you refused to go inside. You said that the snow was meant for us alone, and so we stayed out until it got dark and darker still, and there was no light in the world...