I LOVE SNOW!
Snow in Ellijay, Sunday, November 19, 2000
Our dog, Beau, frolics in the snow on November 19, 2000
For days, The Weather Channel had been teasing with forecasts of ice, sleet, or snow beginning Saturday night. All day Saturday, people speculated on whether it would snow or not. "Sure looks like a snow sky," some would say. We had dinner and played dominoes with our neighbors, Jack and June, on Saturday night. I lost miserably. All through the evening, I'd been peeking out the window to see if the snow had begun yet. Jack and June, who had moved here from Wisconsin, did not share my wish. When we headed back to our house about 10:00, there was still no snow.
I slept peacefully. When I woke up about 7:00, I knew that it wasn't snowing. My morning greeting to my husband included a statement of my disappointment that it had not snowed. To our amazement, within about five minutes, it began to snow. It wasn't just a light sprinkling...it was coming down hard with huge flakes which Bill, a friend in North Carolina who also received snow from this same system, described as "large as goose down feathers."
We hurriedly ate breakfast, then dressed warmly so that we could take a walk in the snow. I took along my digital camera and got the picture above of Beau in the snow. It was wonderful, wet, and mushy snow. The pansies in the bed and the roses on the trellis at the back of the house were frosted with icy crystals. As I walked back in the house, the phone rang. "I hope you're happy!" said June. I was--deliriously so.
The snow continued for about five hours. I sat mesmerized at the window, drinking hot chocolate and watching the flakes whirl around in the wind as they drifted earthward. When it finally stopped, the sun came out, and we donned our coats again for another walk in our own personal white wonderland. Marion estimates that we got four or more inches of snow.
Now...on to more pictures.
View from our front porch.
Another view from our front porch.
Looking back up the road at our house.
Marion and Beau in the snow.
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