Calling in an Early Winter

In yesterday's installment of this blog, I mentioned (okay, I extolled) Desiree's skills at decorating for Christmas—early Christmas decorating, I might add. Here in these parts, most folks won't crack open a storage box of decorations until after they've had a tiff with one of their relatives at a family Thanksgiving dinner.

Be that as it may, our house was decorated, and then, a mere twelve hours later, an early, brutal snowstorm slammed down on our valley. We're talking deep snow, strong winds, and cold. Usually, winter takes a few piddly practice runs at us before we get a storm like this.

So, I wonder, is this a coincidence, or is winter one-upping Desiree?

Snow (With Decorations in the Foreground)

Outside the Sunroom

—Mitchell Hegman