Snow

Snow is great, even though it is at this time of year a very obscure sort of concept, a thing which is used as an advertisement on coffee-shops and candy-wrappers long before it becomes a reality—if it ever does. I am used to this. Imagine my surprise therefore when I stepped outside of the school building on a bleak Monday to behold two or more flying flakes decorating the skies! Of course there was no chance that it would stick to the ground, but the grey atmosphere and piercing wind gave a pleasant wintry effect. I saw another flake, and another. A true flurry, a third flake drifted down after them.
“O wow!” I could not help but exclaim, laughing and hurrying forward. A passing college student smiles down at me.
“Yeah, I’m from Florida, so this is pretty unusual. . .”
I didn't mention that snow in November was pretty unusual for us Alabamians too. I was too busy rejoicing inwardly.  
Who knows? Perhaps the early snowflakes herald a nice cold winter for us! But what ever the weather is, happy Wednesday.

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