When the first snow arrived there was great excitement.
Children rushed to the windows to watch in silence as the white flakes fluttered to the ground.
Being from the northern climes my family saw the snow as a novelty. We witnessed great frosts in the weeks before; whole trees silver each morning, the river frozen over and spectacular icicles hanging from the fences.
By the time the snow came it was the beginning of spring. The peach and apple trees had begun to bud and the wonder of the snow settling upon the blossoms was one I shall always remember.
The southern winter was new to us. That it lasted nine months of the year was a challenge. The babies’ nappies hung out over night would often be frozen solid and there were a few days when I would come home during the day to flush the toilet because the water pipes had been frozen.
On only a few days in the years we lived there was there a snowfall to talk about. One time people built snowmen, a mate and his kids built an igloo, and the kids at the school rolled a snowball a metre plus in diameter.
For me snow is a distant thing, it happens in other places, I see it on the TV, I read bloggers complaining about shovelling it.
I’ll settle back in my shorts and singlet and appreciate the world I live in, hot, muggy with occasional rain.
Written for: https://penntonic.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/creative-expressions-10-snow/
Morpethroad 
Boo hoo!! jealous here by the way but a lovely write about the “first” snowfall is liked even here.
Thank you Oliana and I am thankful I don’t live there any more as beautiful a place as it was.
What a stunning photo did you take it? I was caught at frozen nappies hah ouch!!! Not pleasand
The photo? No. Well in our day we used cloth nappies which had to be washed and hung out.
ah yes well they had cloth with us too but more from a world friendly point of view, the rest of us had the disposables which actually arent really that disposable hehe xx
I often think it would be nice to have a white Christmas here — just once. Just for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 🙂
We do live in the lucky country, with a reasonably good climate..well not so much Melbourne ..and I hate the snow.
Lovely contrast of winters you have know and where you are now. It is fascinating to be part of a global blog community and see, read about everyones different circumstances and experiences.
Stories of snow bring back memories of growing up in Montana, Michael. I am not, have never been, a fan of the cold. And yes, it lasted up to eight or nine months of the year. I walked to school for years alongside snow drifts three times my height. In Oregon, when a few flurries fly (about once a year) I panic. (And everyone’s jumping for joy at the sight of the snow is completely lost on me!)
Yes I found the novelty wore off quickly…..have a good day Mandy
Sometime, where I live, it feels like sunshine is a novelty. I don’t think that could ever wear off 🙂 I hope you had a good day, Michael. Or should I say “have”? Mine is just ending.😴
It is nearly our dinner time here, 5.50pm Thursday.
Hope your evening is relaxing.
Thank you, yours, too!
Check out my first prompt on MLM…..my latest post is my response.
Really great, Michael. Will you be creating all the prompts now or just certain days?
Every two weeks. Next week phylor will post her first prompt.
Oh great! I’ll be sure to check in. Not that I wouldn’t have anyway 😊
Nice. You almost made me like winter again until the part about shoveling it! 🙂 Actually, I do like winter until about late January. Then I start looking forward to March and April and spring! We’ve gotten an entire winter’s worth of snow in about two weeks. Enough already! Maybe next week, we’ll daydream of warm summer days.
Thanks Caerlynn, my winters are not much more than a few weeks with a doona pulled up on my bed. I have it good I know.
Winters & snow are overrated…
I can well understand you saying that.
Oh, I almost forgot to mention– I love the name Joey.