Snow!!!!

Oh, what a miracle. First snow of the year tonight. It rained all afternoon and then rain became sleet and now sleet has become snow.

I love snow.

I went out with the dogs and got a couple of pictures of the snow in my garden. This is soooo beautiful. Only God could have made a world like this.

There were kids playing outside and their father mentioned to me that just an hour ago all they wanted to talk about was Halloween and now they have completely forgotten about it because of the wonderful snow.

Note to Eliot Girl and all other Eliot fans, the roses are filling up with snow. Late roses filled with early snow. Just in time snow. Oh how I love the first snow snow.

What is the late November doing
With the disturbance of the spring
And creatures of the summer heat,
And snowdrops writhing under feet
And hollyhocks that aim too high
Red into grey and tumble down
Late roses filled with early snow?
Thunder rolled by the rolling stars
Simulates triumphal cars
Deployed in constellated wars
Scorpion fights against the Sun
Until the Sun and Moon go down
Comets weep and Leonids fly
Hunt the heavens and the plains
Whirled in a vortex that shall bring
The world to that destructive fire
Which burns before the ice-cap reigns.

It's what late October is do actually but, poor Eliot, he wasn't sturdy enough to stand up to real climate (that's why he went to England you know, for the climate). Of course, he immediately goes on to dismiss all this stuff here as, "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion". I don't know, it wears pretty well if you ask me.