What? We have had summer weather! I don't care what month it is. We are packing away our winter sweaters and corduroy pants and pulling out our shorts and tee shirts. It CAN'T be snowing! But it is. Big wet sloppy flakes that are actually accumulating on the ground. The forecast says some areas might get 2 or 3 or even 6 inches. How ridiculous and impossible it seems.
But as soon as you step outside, it doesn't seem so far fetched. It is downright cold and the wind takes your breath away. The roads are perfectly clear (why did I put my snow tires on this year?) but traffic is slow nonetheless. I worry now about all the early blooming flowers and the trees with their leaves all unfurled. Crops too. Will we lose major food groups because of the untimely summer weather now being swallowed up in the normalcy of winter? I ache for the tender tulips and the big flowering trees that have already blossomed.
Still. I cannot resist the romance of the swirling white flakes. It is the Currier and Ives card we never got at Christmas. I want to dance and twirl and stick out my tongue and taste the cold wetness of the beautiful flakes falling falling falling all around. Hooray for winter. Hooray for snow. Hooray for a really short cold spell.
But as soon as you step outside, it doesn't seem so far fetched. It is downright cold and the wind takes your breath away. The roads are perfectly clear (why did I put my snow tires on this year?) but traffic is slow nonetheless. I worry now about all the early blooming flowers and the trees with their leaves all unfurled. Crops too. Will we lose major food groups because of the untimely summer weather now being swallowed up in the normalcy of winter? I ache for the tender tulips and the big flowering trees that have already blossomed.
Still. I cannot resist the romance of the swirling white flakes. It is the Currier and Ives card we never got at Christmas. I want to dance and twirl and stick out my tongue and taste the cold wetness of the beautiful flakes falling falling falling all around. Hooray for winter. Hooray for snow. Hooray for a really short cold spell.
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