The first snowfall of the season

There's something about the first snowfall of the season.

Despite the winter blues, the short days that mean you are driving back in the dark even though it is only 5.30! there is something about the first big snowfall of the season.
The day before ... people leave the office early hurriedly grumbling about the nasty weather to come. Mothers worry about how the kids will manage the walk back from school in the snow. Kids wonder if they will have a day off.
And then - the heavens drop a white blanket on the world silently at night and despite all the problems the snow will bring to your commute and your frostbitten fingers and noses, you have a smile on your face when you look at the pure sheets of white.
There is no need to rush the kids for school, the snowpants and snowboots come on- even though it is just 5 inches of snow.
Later, you see gloved hands, bare hands all picking up the soft fluffy stuff. Snowballs go plopping across! The less daring ones pick up the snow, look at it lovingly and aim snowballs at their imaginary friends on the pavement. The shyest kids also have these wondrous smiles lighting up their faces.
Even though the snow is already melting, snowmen come up...perspiring ones.
Overnight the snow will freeze, turn to black ice, even I will have to walk gingerly like a model so as not to slip and fall; be extra careful while driving so that the car does not skid...but that is tomorrow. Today, everything is beautiful