First Snow

 

We had our first snow overnight.  There has always been something special about the first snow.  With the barren landscape muted in brownish grays after the green summer and colorful falling of the leaves, the first snow brightens everything with a pristine white blanket.  With global warming and less snows that melt off quickly, any snow during these warmer winters is almost as special as the first snow.  There is a possibility we may have a white Christmas.

I have to admit, my excitement and glee has not changed at all over time.  I have the same fascination and wonderment since childhood.  I don’t see that ever changing.  I send my grandkids short videos of our comings and goings.  A disproportionate number of those videos are during or just after snowstorms. 

I had an appointment this morning and left the house at 7:15.  The roads were already clean and the traffic was light.  As it was a wet snow, they snow stuck to the branches of the trees making for a most pleasant drive in this first snow.

Winters can be dreary.  The days are short and as already noted the landscape is drab.  Many of you who do not like the cold and snow of winter will take exception when I say that snow, to me, is magical.  It brightens the world, makes the landscape clean, brings a calm and quiet to the world.  It is not me, this defines part of the Christmas mystique in the northern climes.  Snowy landscapes adorn Christmas movies and Christmas cards.

Here are some reflections of other writers some more notable than others:  

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ‘go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again. ~ Lewis Caroll

 

Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity.” ~ Novala Takemoto

 

There’s just something beautiful about walking in snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you’re special. ~ Carol Rifka Brunt

 

It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it. ~ John Burroughs

 

Kindness is like snow—it beautifies everything it covers. ~ Kahlil Gibran

 

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood. ~ Andy Goldsworthy

 

The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.” ~ e.e. cummings

 

Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem. ~ William Hamilton Gibson

 

Thank goodness for the first snow. It was a reminder–no matter how old you became and how much you’d seen–things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered. ~ Candace Bushnell

 

The Snow Did Not Even Whisper Its Way To Earth, But Seemed To Salt The Night With Silence. ~ Dean Koontz

 

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow. ~ Edmund Hillary

 

The First Fall Of Snow Is Not Only An Event But It Is A Magical Event. You Go To Bed In One Kind Of World And Wake Up To Find Yourself In Another Quite Different, And If This Is Not Enchantment, Where Is It To Be Found? ~ J. B. Priestley

 

Snow is…a beautiful reminder of life and all its quirks. It makes me pause. Think. Stay still. Even my mind takes the hint. It makes me feel giddy. Like a kid.” ~ R.B. O’Brien

 

It takes a snowflake two hours to fall from cloud to earth. Can’t you just see its slow, peaceful descent? ~ Amy Krouse Rosenthal

 

Winter forms our character and brings out our best. ~ Tom Allen

 

Snow is falling outside and all is peaceful and still. In such moments it is possible to believe that the world could still be good. ~ Richard Paul Evans

 

I Know A Little More How Much A Simple Thing Like A Snowfall Can Mean To A Person. ~ Sylvia Plath

All quotes from purewow.com.