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Another day, another blizzard – view from our letterpress office

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The snow is falling fast and furious this morning…once I actually navigated the snow/slush/slippery roadways and got into work, it was much more joyful and peaceful to watch the snow fall into the parking lot and parked cars. Everything is muted today — well, actually, everything has been muted here for months now. But I felt better after trying to match the gray sky here to a color in our Pantone book — it’s totally impossible! The sky isn’t just gray–it’s way more complex. Some blue, a little purple in it, this nice mottled effect…anyhow, gray is supposed to be the big color this year, so at least our winter cloud cover is fashionable here in Syracuse.
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Letterpress printing in the snow belt

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We were talking with a friend recently about all the letterpress printing going on in California, and we’ll admit it got us dreaming about warm weather, blue skies, oceans, the color green….until we realized, what are we thinking!?!??! Why move our 50 tons of letterpress printing equipment away from the snowiest city in the U.S.!!! What would we have to brag about then in the winter months? And if we didn’t have to snowblow, scrape, dust off, shovel, balance, drive 10 miles an hour on the expressway in a snowstorm — what would we do with our time? And besides, if it’s not snowing and snowing and snowing — what do people talk about all winter along? It’s definitely winter here in Syracuse, but the good news is — we are winning the golden snowball competition (a contest between five CNY cities in the snow belt)! Snow to date: 95.9 inches of snow here in our city. We’re on track to have this be one of the snowiest winters on record. What’s good about the snow? It’s pretty. It distracts you from not seeing the sun for the entire winter. It slows you down and makes things very, very quiet. And then there’s spring….that first time you hear birds again and slosh through the snowmelt and see the tree buds, the entire city is giddy with joy.