Just when you're thinking it's about time you should be skiing in your shirtsleeves and sunscreen.

Hey!  What happened?  The snow of the previous post melted off entirely later on that day only to be followed, early the following morning, by six inches more, the biggest single dump of snow we've had at our house all winter.   We woke with expressions of disbelief on our faces, quickly followed by grins and powder-crazed eyes.  So down the road we went... 

...finding ourselves, a couple of hours later, in knee deep powder, more in some spots, and even more coming down hard most of the day.  There was little else other than whooping and hollering coming from all directions on the mountain, and smiles all around.   Like skiing inside a down pillow, and just as soft when you fell, which was a lot.

 

It was the kind of day when, surely you can't help but long to be unencumbered by littler ones, and yet, you can only marvel at it all, especially at them up to their waists in snow.  I'm not entirely sure if I've ever really skiied anything like this before, certainly not when I was as little as they are, maybe only one other time at around age 18 I'd guess, and certainly never on tele skis.

And yet, Spring prevails.  You have only to see the pussy willows budding out in the parking lot at the base of the mountain to remind you.

Comments

[Georgia]

You lucky thing. We had no snow in southern coastal CT this year. The kids didn't even get a chance to use their sleds they got for Christmas. And while I am rejoicing in the start of spring, it struck me yesterday that we'll have to wait a whole year now for the chance of snow again!

[lucette]

We have big fluffy flakes of snow coming down as I type. That is on top of two feet of hard snow/ice already on the front garden. Looks like march is going out like a lioness.

[KNITTING ART]

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