Snow

It's about damn time. Five days ago the temperate was 60, maybe a couple of degrees warmer. Now snow. When I woke this morning, it was still untouched--the expanse of white blanketing the field behind the house down to the pond.

Of course, by the afternoon it had turned to rain, which turned the snow to slush pretty quickly, and they're predicting that, as the temperature drops later this afternoon, it will turn to sleet.

Still, for that brief time...