Sarrazollas in Smurfville: It's beginning to look a little bit like winter...

I woke up to a white morning...well, sort of.

We did finally have snow yesterday, if you could call it that. It was more of a morning snow flurry and it did stick in a few places. But, the flakes that fell in the shady areas and stayed around long enough to accumulate into small patches of white melted just after lunch. However, the wetness from the melt-off did not go away and temperatures dipped into the teens last night. Creating what I saw this morning...

This is what it looked like just after sunrise at 8:18 a.m. Notice the roofs of the neighboring houses...they are white but by noon they will be back to their regular tile color.

A whole bunch of frost. There was enough glistening white icy stuff to make the sidewalks and grass look like a fairy had sprinkled her diamond dust around overnight, making little explosions of bright glitter as I walked the dog past the frozen grass lawns of the neighborhood. There was even that characteristic little "crunch, crunch" as I passed over the ever-so-thin layers of ice on the sidewalks.

In order to see the freeze, you have to get four-inches-from-the-tip-of-your-nose (or in my my case, -camera) close up...

"Icicles", or more like strands of "ice hair", as seen on the petal of a piece of a whimsical 5' tall backyard flower

Everyone here, as much as they have complained about the inconveniently wet, snowy winter experienced last year, are yearning for more white stuff, especially since most of their ski passes to the local winter playground are gathering dust and seasonal workers at Bogus Basin have found themselves without a job. We are all keeping our fingers crossed that the predicted days of real snow for the middle of next week actually materialize.

As wonderful as these past warm, dry days have been, I, for one, am getting a little tired of winter looking like this...