Winter At Last

Friday the 13th did not let us down but brought our desire for snow right up front. We went to bed with summer like temperatures and woke up to chilly weather and a beautiful snowfall. The whole landscape changed and we were required to go out and clear our driveway. From our view from the front room of our home we could see the drivers coming down the hill too fast and having to make some fancy maneuvers to avoid a crash into the light pole or the home on the corner.

Everyone knew about the first snow and were well aware of the problems on our overcrowded highways but the police were being called every minute for yet another crash. Fortunately there were no deaths bur huge damage to hundreds of cars. Our youngest daughter was the victim of a rear-ender and spoiled her day. Fortunately she was not seriously injured.

Suddenly our area was transformed from a dull landscape to a virtual fairyland with the soft snow adorning the tree branches and all the evidence of fall gone until spring. Somehow everything seems warmer when mother nature places that white blanket over the barren earth and we prepare for the months of winter. All the folks who depend on snow for their economic well being rejoice as they plow the driveways, work on the ski hills and sand and salt our roads. Yes winter came to us on Jan.the 13th. I wish it came sooner.