Fifteen minutes to winter

[topum]

This is what I saw around our village today:



Then I drove 15 minutes north (and up) to one of the neighbouring villages and the scenery changed to this:

Comments

[susandennis]

We have micro climates here around Seattle like that. I am from the East Coast of the U.S. where this kind of thing is very foreign, but here (and apparently in Moldova) it's truly a thing! And, I think it's really neat.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is awesome. The transition is so sudden, it is almost a line you cross into winter.

[asher63.livejournal.com]

I used to live in San Francisco, where there were foggy neighborhoods and sunny ones. But nothing this dramatic.