First of the Season

Here it is, three weeks into January, and we finally got the first snow of the season. The forecasts are all saying it's going to turn to freezing rain tonight, with little or no accumulation, but we're planning on eating lunch in Gloucester tomorrow to celebrate Donald's birthday -- if we started ANYTHING back at the beginning of September, it set the precedent to combine drastic or catastrophic weather with a family celebration (ie: Ernesto blowing outside while we celebrated Judson's birthday at Olivia's on the Square in downtown Gloucester -- the only place that had electricity -- before heading up to what ended up being Harrisonburg for the weekend). So we're expecting either a good bit of accumulation if not icy conditions for the drive down. It would only seem FAIR, don't you think?? ;-)

This is "before" ... it brings to mind the Dennis the Menace cartoon where he's just had a bath and is all dressed up for church, and in the very next frame he's ...

well ...

Like this!

Finally! What arms, elbows, knees, feet, and various and sundry flying objects (and a couple of stationary ones! :-)) were not able to do, nature and development took care of on their own!