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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad as Fish" data-source="post: 70860" data-attributes="member: 396">Just another Atlantic storm, any sun that follows these gales tends to give a fantastic light for photography, especially on the west coast. Bring it on!Just as a matter of curiosity I looked up that once great subject of snow laden Xmas cards, Good King Wenceslas, and it turns out that he lived in modern day Czech Republic where the winters tend to be colder due to its continental climate. He was also around during the 13th century, in the build up to the Mini Ice Age  which might account for the snowfall which tends to be light in that part of the world. Although, if paupers, Kings (he was actually a duke) and pages were out and about it probably wasn't that deep, for said pauper would be struggling to find the wood under the snow cover.Edit. Just looked some more and it wasn't the snow that was the problem, but the cold. Wenceslas, who was later canonized, heated the ground with his footfall, enabling his minion you continue through the cold wind. The deep snow is probably a much later addition to romanticize Xmas cards.</blockquote>

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