Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 4:30 a.m. in "The City."

The current temperature is 28° under cloudy-skies. Yesterday, we really had the first significant snowfall of the season. The NWS is forecasting a 70% probability for light snow this morning that will be out of the forecast by the afternoon, however, the skies will continue to be cloudy and gray.

Today's high is forecast to reach 32°. The sun will rise today @ 7:28 a.m. and set later @ 5:28 p.m.
There is still a Small Craft Advisory for the "Big Lake" in effect until 1:00 p.m. today.

As is is often said, opportunity is the mother of invention. Oh wait, that is necessity that's the mother of invention, but in any event, I had an opportunity to take some pix of the latest snowfall as it covered our parkway gardens and the trees in the back forty. Since not much else was happening yesterday, I have little else to say about that, to paraphrase Forrest Gump.

We had planned to plant some spring bulbs out there, but....

Fall leaves covered with winter's snow.

While the street was mostly snow-free, the trees, plants, and grass were covered.

Somewhere in this pic is our grill that I was going to put in the garage. Oops.

Fallen leaves on top of snow, a bit early for my taste.

As you can probably surmise, the temperature is well below the seasonal averages, according to Bill Steffen, Chief Meteorologist for WOOD TV and Radio.

Even the people who try to escape the cold and snow in Florida won't be spared the latest cold snap. However, their 70s and 80s are much better than our own forecast temperatures. Locally, the NWS is forecasting temperatures will bounce around, sometimes in the 40s, sometimes in the 30s, so some of the current snow should melt away and allow for a fall clean-up to be accomplished by a local service, not me.

Today, we have nothing specific on the agenda. Reading, painting, music, cooking, etc. While that may seem ambitious, some of the activites overlap and will be going on at the same time.

So, that looks like enough for this blog. Ciao.