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I don't think of snow falling in October. This is the month of beautiful colored leaves, especially in the mountains. But last night it snowed in Black Mountain, NC where my sisters Alice and Carolyn live.
My sister Carolyn sent me these pictures via email this morning and the snow is beautiful. It covered the apple tree in the back yard (center of big photo) and the red apples looked pretty surrounded by the snow. The snow melted today when the sun came up.
Another October snow I remember was our first winter living in Wayzata (Minneapolis suburb), MN. We had moved there from Texas during the summer. On October 11th I remember going to Ridgedale Mall and parking my car and going inside the mall for awhile. I was there for a couple of hours and when I came outside around 2 pm, my car was covered with snow and it was snowing so hard I could hardly find the car. It snowed all afternoon and I was so nervous trying to find my way back to Lake Minnetonka near where we lived. I knew our son James would be getting home from school around 3 pm. So I had to try to make my way back home. When I got back on the highway, the snow had melted and I had no problem getting home.
I love the first snowfall of the year and we've lived in many places where it snowed. We lived on a wooded hill in Winston Salem, NC in the early 1980's and when it snowed the trees were beautiful. It was a little tricky sometimes getting up the hilly driveway from our "tucked under" garage on the back of our 3 level home when there was snow and ice.
While the early snowfall is always exciting and beautiful, I think I lean more to the beautiful fall foliage and cool nights and pretty frosts that look like a sprinkling of snow early in the morning.
My sister Carolyn sent me these pictures via email this morning and the snow is beautiful. It covered the apple tree in the back yard (center of big photo) and the red apples looked pretty surrounded by the snow. The snow melted today when the sun came up.
Another October snow I remember was our first winter living in Wayzata (Minneapolis suburb), MN. We had moved there from Texas during the summer. On October 11th I remember going to Ridgedale Mall and parking my car and going inside the mall for awhile. I was there for a couple of hours and when I came outside around 2 pm, my car was covered with snow and it was snowing so hard I could hardly find the car. It snowed all afternoon and I was so nervous trying to find my way back to Lake Minnetonka near where we lived. I knew our son James would be getting home from school around 3 pm. So I had to try to make my way back home. When I got back on the highway, the snow had melted and I had no problem getting home.
I love the first snowfall of the year and we've lived in many places where it snowed. We lived on a wooded hill in Winston Salem, NC in the early 1980's and when it snowed the trees were beautiful. It was a little tricky sometimes getting up the hilly driveway from our "tucked under" garage on the back of our 3 level home when there was snow and ice.
While the early snowfall is always exciting and beautiful, I think I lean more to the beautiful fall foliage and cool nights and pretty frosts that look like a sprinkling of snow early in the morning.
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