Herrington: Celebrating a rare, brief and real Memphis winter
As snow falls, a woman carries her groceries in a wagon across Poplar Avenue on Wednesday, Feb. 17. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Vehicles make their way down unplowed roads in Memphis on Monday, Feb. 15. (Karen Pulfer Focht/Special to The Daily Memphian)
University of Memphis student Grace Scudder plays in the snow on the closed campus Monday, Feb. 15. (Elli-Rose Focht/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Gary Brough shovels his driveway in Cordova on Monday, Feb. 15. (Karen Pulfer Focht/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Spencer Moore runs along Walnut Bend Road on Wednesday, Feb. 17. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
A dog walker slowly makes her way over snow-covered sidewalks on Tuesday, Feb. 16. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Rahim Rashada walks at Shelby Farms on Sunday, Feb. 14. (Karen Pulfer Focht/Special to The Daily Memphian)
A family plays in the snow along the Greenline in Cordova on Sunday, Feb. 14. (Karen Pulfer Focht/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Sleet and ice fall in Midtown Memphis on Monday, Feb. 15. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Evans Ragin, 12, (front) and Gemma Ferguson, 12, (back) slide down a hill in Overton Park on Monday, Feb. 15. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
A man walks through Overton Park on Monday, Feb. 15. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Siblings (left to right) Waverly, 6, Ronan, 4, Sage, 8, and Foster, 8, play with their father on Monday, Feb. 15. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Waverly McKenna, 6 (bottom), gets a push from her father, Mike McKenna, during a snowstorm on Monday, Feb. 15. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Lyla Lawrence, 11, slides down a hill in Overton Park on Monday, Feb. 15. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Sledders head up a hill during a heavy snow storm in Overton Park on Monday, Feb. 15. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Sleet glazes streets in Midtown on Monday, Feb. 15. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Chris Herrington
Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.
Here’s to the iced-over trees that began our winter week. We got the eerie beauty without much of the damage. Here’s to the giant icicles forming from gutters and awnings, giving neighborhood strolls a beyond-the-Wall “Game of Thrones” vibe.
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