First Snow!

[ysabetwordsmith]

It is snowing tonight. These are the biggest snowflakes I've ever seen -- huge fat white fluffy things, some of them as big as a 50-cent piece, floating straight down without a breath of wind. The ground is sparkling with panes of ice where the crystals are wide and flat. It looks like holiday-card snow.

I'm reminded of one morning when I got out of bed, still half-asleep as usual...

Shareem: "It's raining feathers!"
Me: "mmm ... wha?"
Shareem: "Look! Look outside. It's raining feathers."
Me: "That's snow. It's snowing."
Shareem: "It looks like a rain of feathers."
Me: "Snow is frozen water. When water gets cold enough, it does that."
Shareem: "It's beautiful. But it still looks like it's raining feathers."
Me: "I guess it does."

Sometimes the people in my head have the strangest way of looking at the world. I love it. The amusing thing is, that morning I hadn't really noticed it was snowing yet, since it takes a while for my brain to boot up. Occasionally one of my characters will be wide-awake before I am. It makes life interesting.

Tonight, we all got to watch the snow together. It looks like the Goddess decided to shake out a whole flock of geese.

Comments

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

I've seen the kind of snow that looks like feathers before.

[seticat.livejournal.com]

That is a beautiful visual.

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

When I saw the snow, I had to run upstairs and get my partner so he could see it too. We have snow every winter, but sometimes it does something unusual and eyeworthy. I'll be describing tonight forevermore.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Eeee!

One day I will see snow falling. :)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

That's what my cousin Renee said, once upon a time. And it continues to be a beautiful description.