i see a cold front rising

[jazzfish]

Clear blue sky this morning, right up until I passed under the bridge to Tysons. At that point I could see the purple-grey cold front lined up like a mountain range.

It made me homesick.

I joke that the only things I miss about Blacksburg are Zeppoli's, Long Shop, and Spiel. Really, what I miss are the mountains, in ways I can't describe because I only consciously miss them when I'm someplace where they are. It's not even like something I'm missing, it's just a blind spot. My brain skips over it and there's just this nagging sense that the horizon really oughtn't be that low.

Ice tonight, and snow tomorrow. It's good to have a winter again.

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[meghatronn.livejournal.com]

I understand what you mean. I feel the same way about missing Harrisonburg. It becomes very real to me when I pass over Fairfax Ridge on Rt. 29 to Centreville and suddenly the mountains are There.

[jazzfish]

Going out 66 the mountains just sort of creep up on me, which isn't the sort of thing one thinks of mountains as doing. . . and then I come over a ridge and realise that the other half of the interstate is /down/ a hundred feet.

I don't think I've ever actually gone down 29 to get back to B'burg. I should try that sometime.

[jsciv.livejournal.com]

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