It’s beginning to look like Christmas…oh wait

We woke up to snow this morning, which is just now beginning to quit (1:30pm).

My husband and I both commented that it felt like Christmas should be next week, but oh wait, we haven’t even had Thanksgiving yet.

The snow came down in big fluffy clumps, almost straight down, no blowing.  Which is very often the way you see it in Japan.  And as in Japan it is melting almost as soon as it lands.  The temperatures are right around freezing but if it moves on and we get clear skies it will be very cold tonight.  (My prediction.)

Growing up in Northern Illinois, snow by Halloween wasn’t unheard of, not necessarily welcomed, but not unheard of.  Here in Oklahoma it seems too early, but what do I know?  Oklahoma doesn’t get much snow to begin with and we are all happier having this snow fall rather than an ice storm which is a much more frequent event and more damaging. 

So I’ll post some pictures.

  

 

The first and last pictures were taken last week.  The middle three this morning.

With a warm gas fire place in the living room and a gas/wood one in the den and some firewood on the front porch, we’re good to go.  Maybe a nap…something about ‘a long winter’s nap’?