walkin' in a winter wonderland...

You know how just the other day I said that the sleet that collected on our roof was the most white I'd see for a looooong time?


Well, I was wrong...


IT SNOWED THIS MORNING!!!!!
(I know that it doesn't look like much in the pictures, but there actually was a lot...it just got thicker after they got taken =P)

Yes, here in the heart of Dixie where the temperatures had been in the 70's only a week ago. How cool is that? Granted, it wasn't exactly the perfect fine, powdery stuff that falls up north, but it was good enough for us ^.^

When I looked out the window this morning, I couldn't believe my eyes! What had been rain only moments before was now a torrent of tiny snowflakes whirling around in a gusty, wintry gale. David and I were outside before you could say "Jack Robinson". For a while we just wandered about our yard in a daze (what was all this white stuff falling from the sky? =P), not to mention ecstasy (i performed a happy dance or two and caught snowflakes on my tongue); then I started to get cold and ran inside to fetch some gloves. Which, of course, turned into pulling on a vest to put under my jacket and retrieving a scarf from my room in addition to my original errand. That done, I ran to get a football from the garage and David & I threw it around for a little while. Well, he threw; I tried. I can't get my hands around that ball without gloves on, let alone with!
(we didn't realize that the camera actually recorded sound LOL)

And then, of course, came the classic snowball fight. I clambered up onto the deck and bombarded David with snowballs from above while he pelted me with them from below. He cheated, though. Whenever I threw a really nice, big snowball he would always catch it, add the remains to his snowball, and hurl it back up at me. Not fair! =P

After about two hours of a beautiful winter wonderland, the falling snow turned into a nasty mixture of rain and sleet. By this evening, any trace of whiteness had disappeared and been replaced with transparent slushiness.

Only the lonely snowmen remain...