The color WHITE

Last week, the weather reports said there was going to be a huge snowstorm over the weekend on Sunday night. It was going to be our first big snowfall after we moved here so we were wondering how it would be.

Sunday morning...clear skies, no snow, cold but normal for this time of the season...we even stepped out of the house to go shopping. Sunday evening...still clear...did not look like there was going to be any snowfall at all. By 8.30 pm Sunday night the county had declared all schools closed...but still no signs of any snowfall or change in the weather. And then at 10 pm it started to snow...it snowed...and snowed...and snowed. The snow kept falling from the sky...like tiny little white pearls and in an hour, the ground was completely covered. My children were excited...my daughter touched the snow and said 'Cold'...my son was happy to see the snow but happier that he had an unexpected school holiday the next day..(His mom was happy about the same thing too...no early morning rush?...Bliss!)

It snowed all night long. The next morning as I looked outside my house...I was greeted by the most beautiful sight...the white sky and the white ground looked in sync with each other...it was hard to tell where one stopped and the other began. In between the white there were tiny sporadic bursts of other colors on things that the snow had not covered...the green of the trees, the black of the mailbox, the brown of the fences, the deep red bricks of the houses around us...but the dominant and most striking color was WHITE.

That afternoon we bundled ourselves up and stepped outside to play in the snow. It was like being instantly transported to a vacation destination. As we threw snowballs at each other, I kept thinking about how brilliant the human brain is...human beings even figured out how to build an igloo from snow and call it home...Amazing!

I know that the fact that we did not have to drive anywhere (schools and offices were closed), did not have to shovel our driveway, did not have to deal with the extreme cold outside made our first big snow experience a memorable one. And I guess we will deal with all that when we have to...but for now it is pure magic.

Signing off marvelling at the many wonders of nature and this quote by J.B.Priestley

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"