Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

[Karen]

It's snowing right now the prettiest snow
Big fat flakes from the night sky
Bunches of flakes at a time
Likes the worlds softest snowballs
Drift toward my car on the quiet street
And plop near silently on my heated windshield
They fall, unhurried
Like they will go on forever
No wind, no rush, just
Snow eternal, it implies,
Get home, hunker down
Set those mittens on a radiator and
Settle down indoors
Until spring

[Bibette & Lulu]

Loved the poem, Karen. A poet AND the Mayor!!

Our snowfall started as big flakes around 3 and it's kept on going. I was noting how fluffy and light they were landing on the 8 or so inches from Thursday!!! I caught the latest addition to our cat house watching the snow as it came down Thursday - ah...if we could only read their little pea brains!!! Nutmeg (I'm working on adding her to my gallery) wandered into our yard earlier in November and was spotted by Bibette - I thought it was just another gray squirrel, until I spotted the kitty face. She was scraggly, skinny and, we discovered, loaded with fleas. Trip to the white coats, some flea stuff, and a few square meals, and she's perked right up and is giving everyone!!! a wild run (literally!!!). So her looking out the window at the accumuating snow was almost one of "I'd be out there freezing if not for my finding the right back yard."

[Karen]

So her looking out the window at the accumuating snow was almost one of "I'd be out there freezing if not for my finding the right back yard."

Yes, I am happy knowing Tiger/Charlie is also safe and warm inside out in Stow, not begging at our door!

[Karen]

Done shoveling, we got about 7 inches. The sky was clearing over head as I finished ...

2:45 a.m.
In the wee hours of the morning,
The world is quiet with only
The rumble and beep of the plow
And the scrape of my shovel against the pavement
And an occasional whump of snow
As it hit the growing snow pile
With just enough force to make a dent
As well as add a bit more heft to
The small mountain of snow
And I glance at the sky, the snow has stopped
Stars begin to appear
And the last few wisps of cloud
Race past the full moon, heading
Quickly out to sea
To add their snowy benediction to the waves

[lizbud]

Done shoveling, we got about 7 inches. The sky was clearing over head as I finished ...

2:45 a.m.
In the wee hours of the morning,
The world is quiet with only
The rumble and beep of the plow
And the scrape of my shovel against the pavement
And an occasional whump of snow
As it hit the growing snow pile
With just enough force to make a dent
As well as add a bit more heft to
The small mountain of snow
And I glance at the sky, the snow has stopped
Stars begin to appear
And the last few wisps of cloud
Race past the full moon, heading
Quickly out to sea
To add their snowy benediction to the waves

Beautiful. Your muse keeps very late hours.

[Karen]

The snow itself kept late hours!

[Edwina's Secretary]

Nothing makes me more nostalgic and homesick than.................snow.