I
How to Make Florida Snow
Pages of broken books/ flake away from their spine
My tiny scissors snip shapes.
II
How to make Florida Snow
Gathered shell shards/ dance with drifted sticks
Sugar sand Snow Man smiles.
III
How to make Florida Snow
Find Bush/ shake its booty
Florida Snow brings me to letters of my 2024 word
b e v e r o s
I. Observe, I did, via video, how someone more crafty than I created tiny paper snowflakes. My 100 or so 2-inch flakes joined 700 others pasted on the cover of cheery poem booklets for the bedbound over in Jacksonville during the recent Holidays.
II. Observe I did, that some odd, flat, form lay up on the backshore brush berm, while we strolled 30 feet away in Fort Clinch State Park, at water’s edge. I walked upland on sand to find a delight & added more sticks.
III. Observe, I did, a winter-flower bush, guessing it could morph into a newly named Snow Tree, at St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge.
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Off now to observe the wonderfulness of your posts here, around this edition of #PoetryFriday. I hope your 2024 contains a great open observation door.
Stay for the groovy links. But first do you know what a busy editor eats as a snack? [editable fruit]
Catch #PoetryFriday’s current host-post at Life on the Deckle Edge, created by multi-media artist & fabulous person, fables chronicler, Robyn Hood Black.
GROOVY LINKS January
5 Marcie at Marcie Flinchum Atkins
12 Tracey at Tangles and Tails
19 Robyn at Life on the Deckle Edge
26 Susan at Chicken Spaghetti
February
2 Mary Lee at A(nother) Year of Reading
9 Carol at Beyond LiteracyLink
16 Margaret at Reflections on the Teche
23 Tabatha at The Opposite of Indifference
No Water River shares what #PoeetryFriday is ‘about!
Kenyon Review wants your h. s. students [ & next yr. try for online…]
THIS Monday night wants your attention https://www.ala.unikron.com
LAST Monday, I appreciated 95th birthday of MLK, Jr. images, & news of King’s family visiting Florida, & their sharing of a granddaughter’s new January 2024 Scholastic children’s book, carrying the light of both of her grandparents:
WE DREAM A WORLD by Yolanda Renee King
Bookseedstudio 
38 responses to “Snow Party”
I’m very late to this snow party, Jan – but so glad I made it. It’s a joy! ❄️
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Aww, there is no “late” here for #PF pals. So glad to be in touch. Enjoy your Sunday!
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After this cold spell, I’d be so happy with the Florida version snow. Thanks for the poems! –Susan T.
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SO marvelous to know who you are & to read you, here, wonderful pal…. Appreciations to the max.
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Ahh. I may be mistaken & perhaps I know two creatives who are Susan T. Apologies if you aren’t the one in PA I’ve known for decades. I’m guessing now you are with the creative world of Chicken Spaghetti! Appreciations for your visit! ~ JGA
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Florida snow is much like Louisiana snow. We got ice last week. It was just cold cold! I’m glad you are having fun with your OLW-observe!
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TY, wonderful Margaret. Be warm & take care of your precious self.
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TY, wonderful, creative, Margaret & please keep warm, be well & take care of your precious self.
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“Observe” is perfect for you, my perceptive friend. Thank you for this fun post which makes this old Florida girl smile and smile! :0)
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ooops, fact error! you might me ol’ Florida in a jest way,
but lively you are not o l d….
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Haha – xoxo
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Nice! One year my kids made a snowman out of sea urchins’ shells. You do what you can when you live in a warm place. 🙂 Ruth, thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com
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Lovely urchins of both kinds, Ruth! It’s wonderful to see you, here.
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Brava, Jan – for snowflakes in FLA ! And for beveros that led you to find and share them in the wild. I might have to go on a snowflake hunt in my desert this week. If I bevero any, I will send them along.
😉
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🙂 too funny Patricia!
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I would love a sugar-sand snowman about now. Thanks for the warm fun!
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Love that Florida snow! (though I’m so, so glad we finally broke our snow drought in VA). 🙂
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Jan, what fun Florida snow you have. I love the three examples. Having lived in both snow country and sand country, I can appreciate making snow in warm desert winters. I like the way you made a puzzle out of sharing your word of the year. I was observant and realized your word is verbose. (jk)
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C L E V E R word gaming, Denise & no at all verbose!!
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Jan, I love this! It reminded me of a story that a former colleague told me about taking her son to Disneyworld for a Christmas parade where Disney made it fake snow. Years later, he asked her if she remembered when it snowed in Florida (believing that it was real). I love the real snow that you found and created in Florida!
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This is such a fun post! I love your clever, poetic Florida-twists on snow. Hope you’re staying warm!
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You sound like you’ve pick up on some of No. Florida’s recent nighttime 20sF temps! Cosy here, TY, so much for asking, Molly.
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Love that sand snowman! What wonderful, creative ways to enjoy snow when you don’t have access to the real stuff.
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As always, Jan you provide me with a reason to smile while viewing your whimsical Snow Art & Poetry. I am so delighted that you are back with us and hope you feel a bit of winter fun / Floridian style!
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This California reader is delighted and inspired by your Florida snow!
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Appreciations & TY also for visiting this blog, Karin. I’m rolling over to your new-to-me space, very soon.
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I know that mostly those in Florida are glad to be rid of the work of snow, but the change of season and the beauty of Winter can be missed. So you brilliantly bring a little Winter to Florida. I’m sure your snowflakes brighten many lives.
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I love the creativity here, and it reminds me that I have pages in a Danish book that could be made into snowflakes. I’m sure they have snow in Denmark! Thanks for all this fun.
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A synchronisitic comment, wonderful Karen, as yesterday we received FreshSnow images from family visiting an historic site in Denmark.
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Your post made me smile all the way through, Jan, but LOL at “editable fruit”. I never thought I’d write Happy Snow Day to you way down in Florida! You’ve taken full advantage of the weird weather week! (Keep cozy, too!)
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wonderful LB! I know you keep track of this peculiar peninsular state. Here, we are just agog over remarkably uncommon 20sF we experienced in No. Fla. this week…. Warm weekend wishes to you, too.
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I love the surprising variety of your Florida Snow Observations. We have plenty of the real stuff here in Wisconsin, and it’s still beautiful–but cold!
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many appreciations foryour staying in touch this way every so often, wonderful joanne! what is your blog url?
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I am enjoying your snow party! Outside my window, snow is falling quickly and there is not school for me or my students today. Wheeee! It’s all good until it’s time to shovel the driveway and the walk. It’s my daughter’s birthdays—one today, one tomorrow. So, I’ll be making some cookie cakes in my kitchen today. They go nice with hot cocoa.
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Cookie cakes sound fetchingly indulgent!
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I OBSERVE that your creativity is in full swing! Your three little flakes of Florida snow flutter perfectly onto the page. The more I think about it, snow in Florida was made for poets — you can’t rely on the actual stuff, so you have to create the illusion with simile and metaphor!
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Jan what a fun sandy-snow filled post, all makes me smile ☺️ Love all the observe pauses you made, the winter-flower bush especially! Though, I am thinking about spring… Thanks for all!
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