Ah well, Lovely to see greens and reds and golds but today I had no trouble getting kids out of bed. "The world has turned white overnight. Any idea why?" The seven year old got out of his bunk so fast he nearly fell and my five year old just stood by the open back door yelling SNOW! SNOW! I love the bright, luminous grey white light at noon with the snow still falling outside. We're still getting the snow. I cleared the back deck at 4:30 and there's another three inches, 11 cm, piled up again. We were unprepared for this. I spent an hour digging up kid's toys from the snow and hauling them to the basement. 4 years ago we had a similar early snow and it stayed; it wasn't till a plow came by for the driveway that I found broken bits of plastic marking the resting places of several summer toys.