November 20, 2001: I was at a County Chorus practice, banquet and concert all day today, so I missed the first snow. GRRRRRR! Does this mean there are going to be twenty snows this winter? Gee, it's not even winter yet! Hee hee
December 21, 2001: Snow on the winter solstice! How appropriate! It's really gorgeous outside- pale blue sky that makes the bare brances outside my east window shine silver-blue, light blue-green grass, blue-tinted pines, copper leaves and starkly cream-colored contrast of telephone poles... absolutely beautiful! The skies are really spacious past the woods, and the dark gray-blue clouds turning to light indigo in the south make me hope the rest of this winter looks so nice! Oh, and the snow of course, big fluffy flakes of white. Looking out our south window (we've got a great panoramic view from the living room) the clouds become pink and lemon chiffon, which shows off the dark green of the pine trees on the next hill over. Each cloud is so distinct that it makes the sky look like something from a Rennaisance angel scene, and the sky in the west has not yet turned dusky. The bare trees reveal the dark line of the aptly named Blue Mountain to our north, and if it weren't so darned cold outside, I'd be dancing in our fields! I love winter. Could you tell? :)
December 27, 2001: It's snowing a bit outside, and it must've snowed last night, cause there's a few crystals left on the car. Too bad we didn't get a white Christmas. I only hope that it snows Tuesday night so I don't have to go back to school on Wednesday! LOL Of course, by then, I'll be bored out of my skull.
January 6, 2002: There've been plenty of tiny flurries I haven't mentioned, but this is the first real snow we've had. We may get a delay in school tomorrow! I wish. The sky is gray blue, and the bare, fractured arms of the trees recede into a dark mountain. Everything is blanketed in a gray-blue. I love watching snow and seeing how it sticks to the pines and the other trees. There are a few poor cardinals in the tree. I'm listening to Burlap to Cashmere, and the snowflakes almost seem to come down to the beat and thrum of the music. This is great!
January 19, 2002: Well, that last snow was enough to get us a day off school, at least. It's snowing slowly but steadily outside, and we're supposed to get six to twelve inches by this evening, when it stops. I think they're wrong. I think it'll snow tomorrow, because it always snows on my birthday... well, all except the year we had a tornado instead... but that's beside the point. :)
Images on this page by Amy Brown.
