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Saturday, October 26, 2002 I woke up in the early hours to find the light which seeped in the windows looking suspiciously white -- on getting up to bumble my way in the direction of the loo, I discovered why: the world outside lay beneath a thin layer of snow. (Aiiieeeee!!!!) White, white, white -- the ground covered, the trees cloaked, each branch delineated in white. As I got the coal stove going, snow began coming down heavily -- big, fat flakes falling faster and faster, the valley to the north disappearing behind a curtain of white. It continues as I write this, the flakes smaller now but still coming down at a pretty good pace. Snow. In October. Not so unusual here in northern Vermont. Pretty, real damn pretty, but not a kind of pretty I'm craving right now. *********** It snowed all morning until the temperature pulled itself up to the 30 degree mark, high enough that the flakes began turning to rain. The rain fell lightly through a lot of the afternoon, not enough to wipe out the fallen snow, but enough to thin it out, perforate it. Enough to get it looking kind of ragged. Fog moved in during the afternoon so that the air, while not white with snow, was still white, looking kind of eerie, mystical. It's nice to be in a warm house in the middle of it all. ************ For a brief, silly Halloween flash animation created by a friend, go here. rws 8:54 AM [+]
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